Small 'Picture frame' MagicMirror (first attempt)

[Mykle1]

@Robert_K

Very nice work! And the neatest I’ve ever seen. :-)

[Mykle1]

@Robert_K said in Small ‘Picture frame’ MagicMirror (first attempt):

Made an acrylic top plate. Doesn’t do anything more than looking nice.

The acrylic top plate does look nice, giving it a professional, finished look. One suggestion, and this is just one old man’s opinion. Keep an eye on the temperature, now that you’ve closed the back of the frame.

[michael24h]

Nice work, I did something very similar. Using apple first gen iPad screen :-)

MY CLOCK
MY 10" inch MagicMirror

[emlowe]

I like what you did with the power, nice and clean. FYI, a number of the LCD driver boards have 5v outputs and I’ve successfully powered an rpi3 from the output from the board itself.

(http://www.panelook.com/upload/201511/MNT686762A_12516-Specification_A2_(1)_201511187301.pdf)

Supplies 5v on the CN3 pins (probably headless on the board, but 5v is there)

This guy says it’s good up to 1.5 amps (https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=67312)

I wired it to a USB cable rather than directly to the GPIO

-Earle

[michael24h]

The Raspberry Pi 3 is powered by a +5.1V and 2.5A
small lcd screen takes about 3.3v.

[Robert_K]

@Mykle1 said in Small ‘Picture frame’ MagicMirror (first attempt):

The acrylic top plate does look nice, giving it a professional, finished look. One suggestion, and this is just one old man’s opinion. Keep an eye on the temperature, now that you’ve closed the back of the frame.

I’ve been thinking about that too. So I started with a closed plate, monitored the temperature and was thinking about making ventilator holes. Then again the temperature isn’t raising above 40degC. So I think it will be okay. I’ll keep it in mind with a hot summer day, thanks!

Regards Robert

[E3V3A]

Wow, beautiful inside!
How did you make the cables stay so nicely squared? With hot-glue?

[Robert_K]

@E3V3A said in Small ‘Picture frame’ MagicMirror (first attempt):

Wow, beautiful inside!
How did you make the cables stay so nicely squared? With hot-glue?

Yes, hot glue indeed.

Regards Robert

[michael24h]

@Robert_K
leave back of mirror open.that will help

[michael24h]

@E3V3A
In my mm-clock, all 3d printed. No hot glue.