I'm mostly done with the hardware now, so I'll present the overall design in this post and explain my solutions to some challenges I encountered along the way. There will be another post on software later.

Final Design

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I'm quite far with the build now, and I'll talk about specific software and hardware parts later on. In this post I'll outline what I changed about the initial concept, and why I made those changes.

Hardware

1. I went with a 27 inch Philips LCD ...

I recently saw multiple posts about smart mirrors, so I decided to give this a try myself, and I want to document the process, and whether I succeed, here. This first part is about figuring out what components to use, what should be possible once it' ...

I wanted to try some simple projects using relays and the Arduino (or possibly Raspberry PI later on) to toggle standard electric devices in my house on and off. Lights, my stereo, things like that.

I looked on Amazon for some relays that can have ...

This and a following article will explain how to build a simple hardware game with an Arduino and use it to turn on a Computer.

Two years ago I built a PC case of wood. I also used a standard lock to turn the PC on instead of a normal Power button ...