It turns out, two-way mirrors can be quite expensive, especially if you want to make a large mirror. After all, can you think of a better way to spend your time in lockdown?! Although I haven’t finished building it yet, below are details of the progress I’ve made so far with my mirror. This all happened whilst the UK was put on lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, which only made me more excited to build this project. I first came across the idea after a friend asked if he could make use of an old laptop of mine – I asked him what for, and soon became fixated with the idea.

Have a look at the links below for an example of such a mirror. However, by placing it behind a two-way mirror, it appears as though you have a “smart mirror”. This screen displays information such as the weather in your area, your calendar, or even music from your Spotify account. The basic idea of the gadget is to take advantage of a two-way mirror by placing a screen behind it, and connecting the screen to a Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi is a low cost, tiny computer that can be plugged into a monitor, for more information have a look at their website ). So called “Magic Mirrors” have been popularised for decades in Sci-Fi perhaps the most famous example is that featured in the classic Disney film Snow White, in which the mirror is used to tell the Evil Queen who “the fairest of them all” is.Īlthough initially, this seems like an impossible (and maybe pointless) idea, one man decided to see whether this idea could manifest as a useful smart home gadget.

Magic mirror software