Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?
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@Mykle1 Awesome, thanks for your thorough response!
I’ve hit a snag with the monitor, I don’t know how to get the bezel off. Videos online for this same model (but apparently different sub-model) have screws and clips in places where mine does not. I’ve got the Acer AL2216W sd. Would it be ideal to just use brute force on it? Hell no! There’s gotta be a better way, but I haven’t found it. I ordered a jimmy and may just wait for it to arrive to try and crank that thing open. Any advice would be much appreciated :-)
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@3DPrintedWaffles said in Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?:
Would it be ideal to just use brute force on it? Hell no!
Ha ha! :-)
Any advice would be much appreciated :-)
I’ve never encountered a bezel that didn’t just snap off so be as careful as you can be. I know someone that cracked a 32 monitor while removing it from the casing. :-(
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@cruunnerr said in Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?:
@bhepler said in Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?:
- Give a thought to power. Are you routing the power through the wall? Through a hole in your internal framework? Consider that at the moment, you have to power the Pi and the monitor, so that’s two cords.
That is a good keyword. If u just want one cord u can think about using a step-down converter.
Don’t know what Voltage your monitor will be using. In my case my monitor needs 12V and the RPi 5V as normal.So i choosed a big 12V power supply (5A or 60W) to power both.
Then i ordered a DC-DC Step Down converter: https://www.amazon.com/DROK-Converter-Step-down-Regulator-Stabilizer/dp/B019RKVMKU/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1516968110&sr=8-5&keywords=lm2596&th=1
connect the 12V output of the power supply to the converter input and parallel to your monitor.
adjust the converter output to 5 - 5.1V and connect it with your Pi :)You can see an example here: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/6048/my-first-mirror-until-now/12
This looks like the way to go, though perhaps a bit more advanced than I am. I think I’ll give this a go when I build my second mirror :-)
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a last hint, which is more software suggest:
https://github.com/gilyes/pi-shutdown
order one push button more (if u tough about before), so this is nice to shutdown and boot up your Pi safely :)
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@Mykle1 Could you show me how this mirror looks from the front? Do you have it vertical or horizontal?
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@3DPrintedWaffles said in Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?:
Could you show me how this mirror looks from the front?
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@Mykle1 Dang, that’s pretty good lookin’. I especially like your frame. I think in some ways the frame makes or breaks it. With a poor/ugly frame it loses it’s “future tech” feel and instead looks tacky. But what you’ve done with a high quality frame keeps the mirror crisp and communicates that it’s not some poorly thrown together novelty/oddity. I think it’s similar to when you see what was once a very nice car that’s been beaten up and not lookin’ good.
I’m probably not going to try to go bezel free for my first build, but as it happens my next door neighbor is a big wood working guy. I’m gonna ask for his help with that part of this. I just gotta think of some kind of gift I can give him in return…
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Thanks for your kind words. Really, I made that frame from a $12 piece of molding from the local Home Depot. Hell, you could buy a $6 miter box and do the same thing yourself.
You can see the whole build here
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1678/1-old-noob-1-rpi-i-can-t-believe-i-did-it-revisitedAnd you can see my use of a cheap miter box here.
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/4930/vanity-mirror-thy-name-is-woman-using-laptop -
@3DPrintedWaffles said in Prepping my first build. Care to check my work?:
but as it happens my next door neighbor is a big wood working guy. I’m gonna ask for his help with that part of this. I just gotta think of some kind of gift I can give him in return…
Get him a six-pack of beer. It will take him less than five minutes to miter a frame. Or. get yourself the beer and make the frame yourself. Then you get all the glory. :-)
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@Mykle1
Also you may have mentioned this earlier and I’ve forgotten, but what size is your monitor? I’m considering upping my size… =-/
