The MagPi - February 2020

has great support for third-party add-ons like the GPIO breakout HAT I used,” Jay says. Future-proofing For a neat interior and ...

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M agic mirrors have to be one of the most popular projects out there. Initially created by combining old laptops and semi-reflec ...

Creating a good magic mirror requires experience in many disciplines including carpentry, electronics, programming, and graphic ...

T here have been some impressive magic mirror projects as makers around the globe challenge each other to improve on previous de ...

04 Secure in place The combined weight of a Raspberry Pi computer and the touchscreen doesn’t come to much, so rather than getti ...

S o far, we’ve got a frame built and ready to go. Next, we’ll look at how to set up your Raspberry Pi computer to run MagicMirro ...

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04 Install MagicMirror^2 Now the fun part. MagicMirror^2 is an Electron app: a web app wrapped up in its own browser. Installing ...

01 Get the right kit Reliable voice recognition requires a good- quality microphone. If you want to use services such as Alexa, ...

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Run your Raspberry Pi 4 faster with our guide to overclocking the CPU and GPU. By Lucy Hattersley A t the heart of Raspberry Pi ...

have a Raspberry Pi 4 Stand, you can 3D-print or laser‑cut your own with the files on our GitHub page (magpi.cc/github). Alterna ...

04 Overclock your config We’re going to use the config.txt file to set a new upper limit for the clock frequency. Open another T ...

07 Take it to the max Now we’re going to boost the gpu_freq and take the CPU to its highest setting. This enables Raspberry Pi t ...

01 Create 3D text Open the BlocksCAD editor in the Chromium web browser on your Raspberry Pi: blockscad3d.com/editor. You can dr ...

five separate letters, because they are not joined together. That wouldn’t make a very good keyring! 03 Join the letters togethe ...

05 Change thickness Next, we’ll alternate the thickness of the letters to help separate them, and to make our keyring even bette ...