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    A New Chapter for MagicMirror: The Community Takes the Lead
    Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.

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    • in_a_daysI Offline
      in_a_days
      last edited by

      Howdy, I’m John. I’m a 35 year old punk rock nerd living in Las Vegas, NV.

      I play in a band and own and operate a commercial recording studio. I’ve always been a computer guy and studied C++ in high school, 15+ years ago.

      I don’t consider myself a particularly skilled craftsman, so I recruited a good friend to help with assembly. He is a general contractor with access to tools and knowledge of how to build a professional looking frame. I think we’re going to attempt our first monitor debezel this weekend. We are very excited!

      Thank you so much for creating this resource, and thanks to all the folks that have shared! I’m still trying to refresh and update my programming knowledge - hopefully I’ll be able to contribute to this shared information in the near future.

      What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?

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      • B Offline
        bchmura
        last edited by

        Hi there,

        I just spent the past few days getting my mirror setup working… well, it was an hour of realizing my old Pi would not do it, several days of waiting for the new one to arrive and then just a few hours to be up and running!

        I actually registered here just to say “GREAT JOB”. The base system was up and running in maybe an hour (including installing raspian) with all the defaults and a few others (the commute one, wunderground, airports, etc). Took me another hour to get Facial recognition and Sonos hooked up.

        I do have a heavy development / linux background, but nothing with node.js at all and I really do not like JavaScript. But I plan on writing a mod to handle talking to a MythTv backend to display a few different things. Hopefully someone will get use out of it and I can give something back to the community.

        I am just stunned at how easy this was to get up and running, well done on that installer guys.

        Thank you for this awesome thing!

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        • foxF Offline
          fox
          last edited by

          Hey there,
          my name is philipp, 35 years old from germany.
          I started one week ago and i love the project ! :)

          Issues With MMM-WatchDog known?

          https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/29827

          Useful for PIR-Sensor: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/post/21299

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          • tosti007T Offline
            tosti007 Module Developer
            last edited by

            I think I might write something here aswell. I am a 20 years old and from the Netherlands. I am studying computer science and really enjoy doing so. I really like the MagicMirror project, but haven’t made one myself just yet. I am planning to do so in the near future.

            If there is anything don't hesitate to contact me!
            ProfileSwitcher, TouchNotifications

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            • 1m21 Offline
              1m2
              last edited by 1m2

              Hello all, my name is Daniel and go by 1m2 on diff. forums and what not.
              I live in hot as heck Phoenix!
              I’m 37 years old and gathering materials now to build my own mm2.
              Been in IT for 16 some years, last 2-3 years I have been working as an Application Integration Test Engineer.
              Love gadgets and tinkering but I’m not a heavy coder at all myself so I may enlist assistance from my code savvy brother only he doesn’t know it yet. lol.
              My hobby thus far has been chopping up car dashes and removing the crappy radio’s they usually have and fabricating removable tablets into them with aftermarket hidden HU’s.
              And… I don’t like long walks on the beach, only short ones.
              Cheers!

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              • D Offline
                dz
                last edited by

                Hi,
                I’m dz, happy to be part of this group. Looking for more development and knowledge sharing. You guyz are awesome!

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                • S Offline
                  SoleLo
                  last edited by

                  HI I’m Justin, I’m a rookie programmer and want to try building a Magic Mirror for my apartment. I’ve been looking at it for some months now. I’ve just been procrastinating. SO any pep talks please send my way.

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                  • Mykle1M Offline
                    Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @SoleLo
                    last edited by

                    Hi all,

                    I guess I should have come here when I first joined the forum but I was so anxious for information that I didn’t even see this category, initially.

                    I’m 58 years old. I am a retired New York City Police Officer. I now work for a local automobile titling and registration company. I have 3 children. My son, the youngest, is a Senior at Stevens Institute of Technology. You can thank (or blame) him for my being here. He introduced me to uBuntu and simply mentioned the Raspberry Pi to me before heading back to school. (See the full story in “Show your mirror”. The rest is history.

                    I would just like to mention 3 names. They are/were instrumental in helping me get my mirror up and running and continuing to answer my questions relating to customization.

                    PeppaPigKilla - The first person here to reply to my very first post for help
                    yawns
                    Strawberry 3.141

                    So, thank you and all the other wonderful, helpful, creative people here.

                    Create a working config
                    How to add modules

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                    • Mykle1M Offline
                      Mykle1 Project Sponsor Module Developer @SoleLo
                      last edited by

                      @SoleLo said in Introduce yourself!:

                      SO any pep talks please send my way.

                      Just do it

                      Create a working config
                      How to add modules

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                      • pjkoelemanP Offline
                        pjkoeleman
                        last edited by

                        Hi all,

                        My first forum message.

                        I’m am 54 years old and living in the Netherlands, working as an electrical engineer. Using the Raspberry Pi used in various projects.

                        Going to build a Magic Mirror with LED RGB background lighting, which is, of course, controlled by the Raspberry Pi.

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                        • cowboysdudeC Offline
                          cowboysdude Module Developer @pjkoeleman
                          last edited by

                          @pjkoeleman said in Introduce yourself!:

                          Hi all,

                          My first forum message.

                          I’m am 54 years old and living in the Netherlands, working as an electrical engineer. Using the Raspberry Pi used in various projects.

                          Going to build a Magic Mirror with LED RGB background lighting, which is, of course, controlled by the Raspberry Pi.

                          Hey welcome to the club… well two actually … the MM club and the 50 year old… Also a member LOL

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                          • T Offline
                            Tueti
                            last edited by

                            Hi all,

                            I’m Christian, a 29 year old software developer from Hamburg, Germany. I love mobile and web technologies and new and evolving areas such as smart homes. I just planned to build my first MagicMirror over the next few weekends. You guys really built some cool modules already that I absolutely have to include. A big Thank You for that!

                            I love that there are already face recognition and voice control modules available, I hope I can help to take the next step with hooking up natural speech control (via Google Cloud Services or Microsoft Cognitive Services).

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                            • NouveauhomesN Offline
                              Nouveauhomes
                              last edited by

                              Hello everyone :boy:

                              I am new here and glad to join this community and get in touch with you all.

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                                johnnyboy
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                                • slametpsS Offline
                                  slametps @johnnyboy
                                  last edited by slametps

                                  Hi all,

                                  I’m Slamet PS, a 39 year old hobbist from Bandung, Indonesia. I love tinkering (IoT), also a gunpla modeller and collector and a drone pilot. I completed my first MagicMirror a few weeks a go. One of great products I have ever met.

                                  I also develop a new module (MMM-RandomQuranAyah).

                                  Still tuning the facial-recognition module and plan to add voice-control.
                                  You can find me at FB, instagram, twitter and blog.

                                  regards,

                                  Slamet PS

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                                  • hartattackH Offline
                                    hartattack
                                    last edited by hartattack

                                    Hello everyone!

                                    My name is Hart and I am 26 from California! I work in software support and am teaching myself some of the development and code aspects of things. I also run a small blog called The Gentlemen’s Society.

                                    I started in the Home Automation world a few years ago when I wanted to make things easier for my wife and have been obsessed since then. I have been wanting a Raspberry Pi, but never pulled the trigger, until I found the MM project! It finally gave me the reason to buy one and now I want more. Got my first “mirror” up and running, which I am using as a dashboard on my TV.

                                    Can’t wait to meet all of you and look forward to the awesome things to come! This is a great community!

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                                    • cowboysdudeC Offline
                                      cowboysdude Module Developer @hartattack
                                      last edited by

                                      @hartattack Glad you’re here and love your site!

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                                      • hartattackH Offline
                                        hartattack @cowboysdude
                                        last edited by

                                        @cowboysdude said in Introduce yourself!:

                                        @hartattack Glad you’re here and love your site!

                                        Thanks you sir! Much appreciated!

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                                        • cowboysdudeC Offline
                                          cowboysdude Module Developer @hartattack
                                          last edited by

                                          @hartattack Your site could prove to be a great resource for the Gentleman ;)

                                          Now work comes early so it’s off to bed I go!

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                                          • F Offline
                                            funkdafied
                                            last edited by

                                            Hello all,

                                            I’m funkdafied a 43 year old newbie to the pi world and found the magic mirror and figured I would give it a try. I’m working on my first one and started with getting the system up, running, and configured the way I want before I build the frame. Looking forward to learning as much as I can.

                                            Regards,

                                            Funkdafied

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