Introduce yourself!

paviro

My name is Paul-Vincent Roll, I’m from Germany and currently 19 years old (doing my finals in school at the moment). I also happen to run a small business, which I try to maintain besides going to school. Mine is about videos though and not the kind of things we are doing here (can never really decide what I enjoy more… :sweat_smile:).

I love coding and building stuff but in most cases my coding work is sadly pretty much hacked together, still have to learn a lot of basic stuff but I will with time :slight_smile: I am currently planning to write an adventure game with a friend of mine, we’ll see how that goes.

Besides the “raw-computer” stuff I absolutely love (already said I can’t decide which one I enjoy more so it’s fine I use the same term again :smile:) crafting images and capturing moments with my camera, be it in video or still form.

Image captured behind my house

You can find me on my blog, GitHub, Twitter, 500px, Vimeo and Instagram.

KirAsh4

@MichMich

An Ultimaker 2, and a 40W laser cutter, one of the many Chinese clones you find on eBay. Though it’s been heavily modified by me (adjustable bed, air assist, better optics, etc., etc.)

I forgot to mention earlier: the bits and pieces of Dutch that come out of me are because I grew up on an island that is part of the Dutch colony, so the first 20-odd years of my life, I also spoke Dutch daily … then I moved to the US and it all went downhill from there.

MichMich

@KirAsh4 interesting. Will take a look on ebay.

nhubbard

Hi! My name is Nicholas Hubbard. I’m currently 14 years old, I love to program and I am an active contributor to Magic Mirror. I have written my own modules, and I actually gave my mom a Magic Mirror for her birthday.

I love the Raspberry Pi (I’m begging for my mom to allow me to use the multiple Amazon gift cards I have to buy a model 3) and I have done several “home” movies (e.g. vacations), worked on multiple projects before and love computers in general.

P.S. The favorite activity of my friends when we were three years old was Little People. I unwound and rewound cords.

MichMich

@nhubbard 14 years? 😱I’m feeling old! 😂Where are you from?

feuerball

Hi! Im Marvin Rühl :) I’m 23 Years old and studying my Master in Electronical Engineering @ TU-Dortmund. I started with this project in the last year, getting some rPI skills for work later.

With MMMv2 this project becomes more huge than i thought, so im trying my best giving good input for it :)

clebo99

Sure…I’m Chris and I live in Baltimore, MD (if you haven’t been to Baltimore, please visit. It’s a great city…nothing like “The Wire”). I’m always interested in new technologies and projects. I haven’t had a good one in a while but this Magic Mirror project resonated with me and I’m really enjoying learning this and Node.JS. I’m sure I’ll be asking a lot of NOOB questions but that is my learning process. A few years ago I started asking NOOB questions on Experts Exchange and I was able to create a really powerful monitoring system using Microsoft Virtual Earth and NetIQ using .NET and VScript. So I know I can learn…I just need motivation and for me to ask the right questions.

Knox

Good Morning, my name is Steve Knox and I live in Calgary, AB (Canada). I am a Mechanical Engineer, but I’ve always had a softspot for some light coding and electronics. I’ve recently started playing with raspberrypi’s and now have two. A pi2 as a media server running plex, and a pi3 running octoprint for my Boxzy. http://www.boxzy.com/. I own my own side business creating custom cufflinks which is just getting off the ground (still need to sit down and create a website) but I do have a few promising leads for larger orders.
“Spare” time has been a bit of a challenge between owning a small business, having a full time job and with two little ones running around but luckily my work is pretty flexible. It lets me learn all sorts of new things, for example we have a large walk around VR lab that connects to our architectural design software we develop. Lay out your office > walk through your space in VR and update it on the fly. The Magic mirror project is something I’m going to dive in and learn in the next few weeks/months, I’d like to create one for my wife, and we’re going to make one for work. Maybe show traffic alerts and weather, nothing too complicated. ;)

KirAsh4

@paviro, stop breaking things! Your video link above is broken.

knewmoovmnt

Hi all,
I’m Mike out of SA, TX . Signed up because I am going to start to build my 1st mirror. A reason why I joined, I’m having trouble finding a mirror that will work for this project. There are a lot of 1 way 2 way mirrors on the Web and I was honestly looking for someone to link a good source to pick one up. Any feedback would be very appreciated. I don’t have the dimensions yet, so a vendor who can sell varying dimensions would be nice.

Thanks,
Mike