How To: Make Your Own Smart Mirror! part 1 @TaylorTech
How To: Make Your Own Smart Mirror! part 1  @TaylorTech
Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
This video is part 1 of the Smart Mirror setup series that will involve the setup, construction, and configuration of the Smart Mirror. In this video I show how to set up the initial MagicMIrror2 software onto a raspberry Pi 3.

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part 2 (construction): youtu.be/YrefX7o86hM

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github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror#manual-installation

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