I’ve seen the projects everywhere: Pinterest, Facebook, Reddit. I’ve even seen a friend build out one for her hedgehogs and talked about doing something with one. I never did though until I ran across a app enabled smart terrarium at the pet store. Researching how that worked led down a whole project rabbit hole. The original plan was to emulate that setup for poison dart frogs.
I still have no frogs.
I do have three Pis now.
The first kit I got was a starter kit that included the Pi specific 7″ inch touch screen. Fantastic. I got it up, working. Learned some command line things. Found even more Pinterest projects and landed on the Magic Mirror page. I finally knew what to do with my pi. I got MM up and running on that 7″ screen.
This past weekend I found out you can take an old laptop monitor and turn it into the screen for the MM. And build a large frame and mount it on the wall! So that was today.
I’ve ordered the inverter kit off eBay to make it work with the pi but it’s coming from China so might be a while.