Being born with the “hairy curse” means that I spend a solid ten minutes in front of the mirror each day shaving. It sure would be nice to be more productive during that time by being able to absorb some media while in front of the mirror. There are at least two smart mirror projects that make use of a raspberry pi:
I’m happy to see a commercial smart mirror pop up from Daptly with the intent on shipping units in December of 2017. Daptly will cost about 2x as a the roll your own Raspberry Pi version starting at $600. It supports gesture inputs and includes a built-in Alexa. The mirror is also fog resistant and heavily integrated with #iot world of lights, locks, security cameras and fitness trackers.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, or even use Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for MakeCode, CircuitPython, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell with Google Hangouts On-Air is every Wednesday at 7:30pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
