The above post on Arcus … it’s being printed. Some of the pieces, when printed all at once, take 30+ hours.

In the mean time, this “rolled off of the assembly line” today:

Ding ding ding! That’s exactly why I got it. :)

@loribeeinca said in Besides your MagicMirror, what are some Maker-projects you worked/working on?:

I built a HomeKit garage door opener with sensor …

'Hey Siri, open the garage door"

Siri, “Sorry HAL, that is not your car. I will not open the garage door.”

I probably won’t, at least not on my production mirror. I will on my test mirror, but that won’t happen this weekend … maybe next.

Thought of something like this since day one for me … but I shoved it to the back (where it fell off now) for a few reasons:
a) if this is in my bathroom, I don’t want to be standing there reading news, so I’d never use it there
b) if this is in the living room, I’m just walking by and glancing at it, again, not going to stop to read
c) as above, if I’m in the living room, I can just turn on my TV and watch the news, all day if I wanted to (who has time for that?!)
c) if I’m at the computer, I can always pull up the news site

In the end it ended up being a ‘nice idea, but won’t get used’, at least not in my house hold. It’s practicality for me.

That said, I understand everyone’s situation is different. Perhaps you do like to stand at your bathroom sink and read the news. Or perhaps your mirror is in a place where people do stop and read. No one is saying you can’t do that.

Just something to chew on …

@MagicCrumps1, perhaps you were using the wrong URL? There’s both a public and a private one. If you use the public URL, then you must also set your calendar to public view. But the private URL has the authentication key in it. No need to make the calendar public.

If you must use liquid to adhere the film to the monitor, I would recommend putting a small bead of silicone along the edges to seal the glass to the frame. Or, if you are removing the frame, you can seal all around the glass screen itself with a thin layer of silicone before you put the liquid on.

This is a request that was made by djsunrise19 on GitHub which i will quote below:

Hi,

today I've seen another behavior. I had an event at 16 o'clock. I looked on both (MM1 and MM2) mirrors at 15 o'clock:

MM1: displays in 1 hour or in 45 minutes (of course, 15minutes later)
MM²: displays today at 16 o'clock

Is it possible to put this function from MM1 in your MM² app? I know that is a personal feature. But in my opinion the MM1 solution fits way better. So you realize that the event is in the near future.

Perhaps we can make that configurable.

This is my current take on it. I added a timeFormat config option that allows you to set it to 'absolute' or 'relative'. When set to 'relative' the time display will look like this:

While in 'absolute' format, it looks like this:

The current code already checks whether an event is happening within the next 48 hours and translates the event time into ‘TODAY at’ or ‘TOMORROW at’. I added another check to see if an event it within the next 6 hours, which will change the time format to ‘in x hours’ which will count down till the event happens:

This is all currently being worked on locally on my fork. Once done I’ll submit a pull request. But I’d like to get feedback from others (as well as from djsunrise19 who originally requested this.) I’d like to know what other enhancements/changes people would like to see.

One thing for me is how I like things displayed. I like the relative time, but only up to a point. For example, if I see an event that says ‘in 2 days’, that will get my attention versus if it said ‘May 4th’. Simply because I may not know what the current date is and see the absolute date won’t mean much. However, at the same time, an event that’s happening 20 days from now, I don’t need it to say ‘in 20 days’. I’m perfectly happy with it saying ‘May 22nd’ on that. So i may add another option, maybe call it 'urgency' and allow it to be configurable to what one would want. For me that would be a week, so that any event happening within a week, it would say ‘in x days’ where everything else further away would display the absolute date. It’s a combination of having both absolute as well as relative dates displayed. That’s just my preference though.

Thoughts?

@MichMich, unfortunately I can’t reproduce that. I’m using my own private Google calendar and it loads just fine.

Being an IT Director and the stress/frustration that comes with that, I tend to let my creativity run wild at times. At any given point I will have several projects going at the same time, and listing them would just end up in a rather long laundry list of things. There are just too many to list, but my first “public” appearance was in 1998 when I got my name in the release notes for the popular Sendmail MTA. It still amuses me when I see it:

8.9.2/8.9.2     1998/12/30
...
Portability:
                ...
                Avoid a clash with IRIX 6.2 getopt.h and the UserDatabase
                        option structure.  Problem noted by Ashley M.
                        Kirchner of Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc.

After that it all went downhill for me. Created a small search engine for a start-up stock agency years ago (they’ve since been bought by another.) Wrote an entire front and back-end for an eCommerce web site at my office, none of that ‘off the shelf’ stuff, all custom programming in PHP & JS. Several, I mean, several little coding projects here and there.

I’ve always done a lot of photography (still do). That’s always part of me, wherever I go. Being able to see something and make it artistic is always fun.

Recent years though (like the last 7 or so), I’ve been doing a lot of LED electronics, as in building my own electronics and coding. One of the more fun ones is a POV “stick” that I made 3 years ago. Basically two acrylic tubes filled with LEDs, control unit, and power cell battery. The artist would spin them around and display colorful images. This is me spinning one of them during testing, standing in my living room at night:

And the “fun” part of creating that, the electrical design, hardware design, building electronics, and let’s not forget the coding too:

Created lighting units for the high school my daughter attended for various different performances. Added lights to color guard flags (and they went on to win 2nd place that year.)

I also do a lot of 3D design and printing with my 3D printer. Or even larger design “things” like these costumes for a little boy:

Created a bunch of different things for the local Ingress community, stuff that gets sold, or given away as prizes. I’ve also done some designs that were made in metal afterwards (earrings and necklace pendants.)

Then there’s the laser cutter which gets used almost daily for a variety of things:

Some with color airbrushed on:

There are many days i will simply sit down and think of the various things going on at the same time in my house and in my head and all I do is: