I finished my mirror quite a while back, but I’m bored in confinement at home, so I thought I’d share.
Made of two old monitors I had lying around.
Not too many modules, we wanted to keep it sober and a mirror first and foremost.
I wrote the bottom left and right modules myself, but as a developer by trade, the most fun and challenging part for me was certainly building the frame. It’s pretty rough and quite simple, but completely homemade.
This is a module I wrote a little while ago to show a map using the free TomTom traffic API.
https://github.com/bendardenne/MMM-TomTomTraffic
It uses leaflet and mapbox as background, which has a lot of flexibility to customize the styling.
They’re quite simple, the left one is a traffic map and the other is a passage table for my local public transport company.
@ttarzan said in It ain't much, but it's mine:
Looks nice and clear. Congratulations on this work!
I am always curious to see how it looks from behind to see how others have installed the individual parts. Do you use two Raspberries?
No, it’s a single RPi 4, which has two micro hdmi outputs.
I would take a picture of the back, but the thing is super heavy and I need to remove all the gadgets from the mantelpiece… Maybe later. But there’s nothing really special about the back to be honest. The two monitors are held in place with a couple of metal brackets, I used wago connectors to wire all power inputs together and have a single power cable to feed everything, and that’s it.
This is a module I wrote a little while ago to show a map using the free TomTom traffic API.
https://github.com/bendardenne/MMM-TomTomTraffic
It uses leaflet and mapbox as background, which has a lot of flexibility to customize the styling.
It’s usually not hard to take it out and it allows you to have the monitor closer to the glass, it makes the monitor less thick so your frame doesn’t have to be so deep, it allows you to place your monitor more freely…
I guess it depends on the monitor, but with mine I wouldn’t have had a good result with the frame still on, it was way too clunky and thick.
They’re quite simple, the left one is a traffic map and the other is a passage table for my local public transport company.
I finished my mirror quite a while back, but I’m bored in confinement at home, so I thought I’d share.
Made of two old monitors I had lying around.
Not too many modules, we wanted to keep it sober and a mirror first and foremost.
I wrote the bottom left and right modules myself, but as a developer by trade, the most fun and challenging part for me was certainly building the frame. It’s pretty rough and quite simple, but completely homemade.