I bet that somewhere in the back of your mind you recall a certain mirror made in 1937…
Now behold mine and my young son’s most ambitious crafting project to date, our own magic mirror. Took us about a month to complete after spending two weeks learning the basics of the Arduino customizable circuit board.
Ingredients: homemade wooden case, old laptop, old flatscreen monitor, Arduino with proximity sensor and potentiometer (you know, a knob), two-way security mirror, lots of paint and plastic gems. More at creator Al Linke’s site http://www.diymagicmirror.com.