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DIY Magic Mirror and Photobooth - Arduino Powered

Step 5The Installation

The Installation
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Your installation can be as simple as this plug and play installation where you can be up and running in 10 minutes or a full on installation with in-wall sensors.

Of course, I had to do the full on installation which was a playhouse I built for my two girls. The playhouse is 8x8x8, I got the plans for the playhouse here http://woodmanor.net/Little-miss-playhouse-plans.html. My Dad built it in Oregon and then dis-assembled it and drove it down to California where we put it back together. We then poured a concrete slab for it and then roofed and painted it. Its basically a full blown mini-house with electrical, insulation, drywall, vent, TV, phone, pergo floor, etc.

The playhouse in itself was quite a project. The nice thing about building it from scratch is I was able to run all the wiring for the sensors through the walls as well as the electrical, doorbell, speaker, network, coax, and phone. Here's a separate instructable on the playhouse http://www.instructables.com/id/The_Princess_Playhouse/
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2 comments
Oct 13, 2009. 5:06 PMmaxpower49 says:
ummm what does this have to do with the magic Magic Mirror
Oct 16, 2011. 11:06 AMspacelf says:
Do not question Magic Mirrors and the things that maybe.

if you look above the window you shall see. (pumkin head)

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Al is an IT Director by day and a tinkerer by night (when his wife lets him). Al maintains two open source projects: the DIY Magic Mirror / Photobooth at http://diymagicmirror.com and the Droidalyzer ...
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