{"id":13964,"date":"2016-01-02T20:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2016-01-02T20:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T19:31:14","slug":"magic-mirror-uses-raspberry-pi-and-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13964","title":{"rendered":"Magic Mirror uses Raspberry Pi and widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.dylanjpierce.com\/assets\/mirrormirror\/15_booting.jpg?resize=560%2C315\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dylan Pierce has\u00a0created a &#8216;magic mirror&#8217; for his girlfriend. As well as showing a reflection, it also displays various widgets such as the time, weather etc. The whole thing is powered by a Raspberry Pi which is projected through &#8216;two way glass&#8217; using a standard monitor. <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dylanjpierce.com\/raspberrypi\/magicmirror\/tutorial\/2015\/12\/27\/build-a-magic-mirror.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read all about it here<\/a>.\u00a0He uses Chromium in kiosk mode and has uploaded all his code to Github so, if you wanted to, you can reproduce this rather nifty hack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Pierce has\u00a0created a &#8216;magic mirror&#8217; for his girlfriend. 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