“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
Many years ago, I went to a very small school and I’ve stayed in touch with most of the people from that class. One of my friends is now a parent with kids in that same school and heavily involved with the PTA, school clubs, etc. Each year, they host an auction to raise funds for the school sports & drama programs and she asked if I could donate a magic mirror for the auction. So I came up with this:
The theme is the use of technology to give the appearance of magic. The left side of the face has various equations & graphs, while the right size has some wiccan & magic symbols. The words are carved with my CNC and filled with a 2-part resin with metallic pigment.
It’s running on an RPI4 with the camera module and a PIR sensor built into the frame. There are 300 neopixels running around the back side of the frame, but I didn’t quite have time to get that part of the mirror working before the auction. It has my reverse SSH code on it, so I can get into it remotely now that it’s been auctioned off.
Honestly, there are several things I would do differently if I had more time (I’m a terrible procrastinator). It needs engravings on the top & bottom pieces of the facing frame, not just the sides. And the pigment for the words should be darker, I think. If I can convince them to give it back to me for a couple weeks, I may be able to redo the frame properly. And I really need to buckle down and get the neopixels working properly.