DIY ambient light in the living room

It's been a while since our corridor project and we had plans for some changes to the living room since quite some time ... so it was time to make another one reality.

New roommate "Morte" - 3D printed skull with animated eyes

Got a new roommate, Morte. He is more on the quiet site (for now) but very interested in his surroundings...

DIY home automation - the corridor

We have been renovating our corridor lately, but also made it into a DIY electronics project.

Playing with light

As mentioned in my article about my first steps into soldering, I started some real projects as well. Today I would like to tell you about one of them, lightening the shelves at my office space.

Soldering - my first steps

Last winter holiday I got a soldering station. Time to play a bit with it.

Mirror mirror on the wall ... Implementing a voice assistant into a smart mirror #2

Getting the mirror to speak, finally.
In my previous article, I was telling about the different voice assistants and how we choose one for the implementation into the smart mirror.
Now it's time to work on the actual implementation ...

Mirror mirror on the wall ... Implementing a voice assistant into a smart mirror #1

Last summer, I was building a smart mirror with a Raspberry Pi, an old monitor and some spyglass.
Now, the smart mirror got extended by a voice assistant to become a speaking mirror.

Google AIY Voice Kit

A while back, Google and the MagPi did a collaboration which resulted in the first AIY Project, the AIY Voice Kit.

Google AIY Voice Kit

Building a smart mirror

In this article, I will tell you about my summer project 2017: Building a smart mirror.