The wiggly end on the measuring tape has a purpose! If you push against something it will give you a correct measurement and if you pull on it the wiggly bit will adjust so the measurement is accurate as well. By being wiggly it corrects the error due to the thickness of the metal bit.
Yes, tape measure is handy for measuring real world spaces but when marking out work Ive always done the same thing, go from the 10cm mark. It does make it more accurate if you're going for precision& ive also made the same mistake as forgetting to deduct it.
You took the words out of my mouth, but I have to confess that when I'm doing tight tolerance stuff like cabinetmaking, I measure everything from the 100mm (10cm). When I do carpentry, then trusting the hook is all good for that for me where slight 1mm+/- tolerances are ok if it happens. I'm a tradesman, are you a tradie too?
"...doing anything in the future would mean re-learning the whole thing..." THIS IS MY LIFE! I am constantly having to re-learn. I truly appreciate that someone understands this. I am totally going to make one of these. As always, a fan.
Hey Thomas never buy a tv mount again unless you need the tv to swivel the best easiest and cheapest way to mount a tv and literally make it earthquake proof is by using two french cleats directly bolted to the vesa mount and the other part on the wall . the best part is you can pretty much make them in a couple minutes just using some wood a saw and a drill. best part is you can take the tv off the wall and put it back in seconds
I have french cleats all over my garage, and use them in my game room for the tv and other shelving - totally awesome. (I had to make them nice and stain them for the wife).
Thats a very unsafe way to hang a tv. You can get a flat tilting wall mount these days for $15. Imagine you have guests over to your house, someone bumps into the TV and it falls on them. Now you have a lawsuit on your hands because there's nobody else to blame for building the mount that failed
the "wiggly end" or hook on a tape measure moves to compensate for the thickness of the hook so you get the same measurement whether you push the tape up to something or hook it on to pull.
But it is only good for measuring from an edge away from the tape and where you have space for the hook. It is in the way when you want to measure from anything else.
I am disabled with very low vision in just one eye and you have designed the perfect digital dashboard system I need to make scheduling and tracking deadlines accessible to me. This is my dream tool. I so wish that I had the technical knowledge to follow what you have done and could build this but I do not. II was in a very bad auto accident 10 years ago when another driver ran a red light and totaled my car.---my vision and ability to speak was lost, and I did not even know who I was or where I was even in my own home. I have fought my way back with 4-5 hrs of physical therapy a day, lots of brain work etc. am on disability and my dream is to go back to work. It took me years to convince Vocational Rehabilitation Services to send me back to school, but I am in my first year of an MBA program and I am succeeding in spite of many challenges. Organizing and staying on top of my schedule is actually one of my biggest challenges. I have gotten a few lower grades because of missing a due date because its so hard for me to track 100's of pages of reading, multiple papers, group projects, 6 exams and up to 50 quizzes every 7 weeks a quarter. I have been saying for years that a large electronic wall calendar would be the most awesome tool--one that I desperately need now I am in school and wanting to work. Everyone has kind of just said oh, that would be nice but it doesn't exist. And here you have created a digital dashboard wall system--just what I need with a large screen display that I could "see"--perfect!! How much does it cost to build one? Nancy Lucas
Nancy Lucas Well an Raspberry Pi 4 costs around 60 bucks you can probably google it and check the price for your local area. And the cost of the tv is very flexible since you can choose any tv or monitor I think. Then a cheapo tv wall mount. And you don't need to make a frame 🖼 for it so even cheaper. You don't really need a wooden frame for it although I think the programming part of the project would be the biggest problem for you so you might wanna get a hand from someone else.
Then you can just hookup your security system to detect any movemnt in the house to turn tv on. Also if you have presenced information from something like home assistant you can turn it off if no one is home.
@@PhilippBlum Time is also money. If you have to loiter around the screen for a minute for it to start showing anything, then just open the calendar app on your phone instead. If you want to save time, have this running during the time you're in the office. If you want to save on energy, use your phone.
Looks great! Things I might add to the screen: 1) Public transport info for local lines/buses 2)Small front door entrance camera image 3) Total power consumption details.
I rebuilt this project and love it. I built my own digital part of it (designing the dashboard without the use of DAKBoard), which makes it very individual and I can display anything I want and need (like crypto prices for my case). Also, I was able to turn the tv off, when the phone of my girlfriend and me are outside of our WiFi and automatically turns back on when one of both phones is back. Makes it more energy saving and without the use of a PIR ;)
Love this idea! I was planning on making a MagicMirror, but this is much more along the lines of what my wife wanted. I build most of our furniture, so the frame part was no big deal, but your instructions and recommendation for Dakboard made the whole thing simple!! We have our shared calendar, ToDo list, weather and even Life360 locations displayed on a 28" LG TV (portrait) between our kitchen and dining room. Thanks for this idea, and the step-by-step links!!
Very cool project! You could even add video streams from 3D printer webcams at the bottom to monitor prints. 10:45 "... don't have to deal with the wiggly end..." Face palm! The wiggly end have a purpose. It slides in and out the precise length of the thickness of the metal bit, so the measurements will be precise no matter if you measure from the inside or the outside.
this guy is a hack. it's not the first time he makes stuff about things he has no idea about. he makes pretty stuff that looks pretty on color graded video. I have serious doubts about the quality of his work.
Thank you for the inspiration. I put it behind a see-through acrylic mirror, and added an arduino with two ultrasonic modules as an input interface for gesture control. I can swipe with my hand to change between the information screen (family calendar and tasklist, weather and traffic info) and an empty screen with just a digital clock, so I can use it as a mirror, too. It also allows future expansion.
This is one of the projects that would really benefit from a PIR sensor to switch on/off dynamically and not based on a set time. Still an amazing build and a great idea! ;)
@@xoniq-vr it's a 4k tv if I'm not mistaken, so I guess it's not that old. But you are right, it's probably not the best idea to make it turn off every 2 minutes or so
I was thinking the same - that a PIR sensor would be a great addition - but I've seen even quite new TVs (and PC monitors) that can take a frustrating amount of time to turn on. I think it would really depend not only on how fast your particular TV/monitor went from off to displaying a stable image (and without overlaying a huge on-screen display informing you that, yes, it's still on the HDMI input!!), but also on your particular use case and physical environment - i.e. could you usefully position the PIR so that, when you walk up to the screen, the PIR turned the TV on a sufficient amount of time before you were actually standing in front of it/wanting to read it. You'd almost certainly want to crank up the timeout on the PIR sensor as well, so that it wasn't turning off "every 2 minutes or so" as The Tinker Dad mentioned. You'd want to find a happy balance between energy saving and not having it turn on/off too rapidly. You'd especially want to do that with older TVs with CCFL-backlit displays (... no one's planning to do this project with a 40" CRT or projection-based TV, right‽ 🙀). I don't really know for sure how TVs would cope, long-term, with being turned on and off several dozen times per day, but I imagine that newer LED-backlit TVs would handle it much better than CCFL-based displays, due to the high-voltage circuitry used to drive CCFLs. You might be able to have the TV/monitor turn off just the display, which would probably make it faster to come back. Maybe use that at first and then turn it off fully after a longer delay - similar to how Windows is often configured to turn off the screen after a few minutes and then sleep the whole PC after half an hour or so. I still wouldn't be surprised if a TV used for something like this needed its power supply capacitors replaced after a few years - but honestly, if you have basic soldering skills, recapping a TV/monitor power supply is usually easy enough and is a very useful skill to have, given how often a dead TV/monitor merely has a couple of failed electrolytic capacitors, so for a few currency units and an hour or two of your time you can have a fully-working display again! :) (Just *WATCH OUT for the mains-voltage bits!!* Obviously unplug it from the mains before removing the cover, but the capacitors on the mains side of the power supply can hold a *nasty* charge, even several days after unplugging it! Anything up to 340V is possible, depending on where you live and the circuitry in question, and that's not something you want to feel the sharp end of!)
Jelle Posthuma Yeah sure, but you could increase the interval to find the sweet spot and SmartTVs nowadays have a semi sleep function (my LG takes just 5s from being off to running Netflix for example)
10:41 The wiggle in the end of the tape measure is intentional, the hook can move the same distance as the thickness of the metal so it can measure correctly using either side of the hook
Tom, I did kind of the same thing you did, except I went with PiSignage. It has a lot of great plugins for weather, task lists (I went with TinyToDo), and much more. I was also able to show content from multiple web pages on the same screen and uploaded pics of scenery to make a window to anywhere. The cloud access is nice as well. I like that you can group Pis into different content lists and update them all with a single click. As for cost. It's free to use if you have 1 or 2 Pis. Beyond that, I think the price is still fairly reasonable.
Great project. Personally i use magic mirror. But i suggest you use a pir or a radar sensor to detect if someone is near to only show the screen then. It save a lot of energy
I am a huge fan of PetRockBlock's PowerBlock for adding a Raspberry Pi power switch. Using them on almost all of my Pi projects now. They have a separate LED indicator light circuit as well as a standalone 5v output. One click of a button, the software starts a safe shutdown of the pi, the LED indicator illuminates in different patterns to let you know what is happening, and after safe Pi shutdown it cuts power to the 5V out line which in turn switches off my MeanWell power supply (RSP series, which has a remote on/off capability). Adafruit has a new RGB version of the ubiquitous LED ring power switch, so I can now use LED color as an indicator in addition to the flashing pattern. Yes you can roll your own safe shutdown switch for a little less money, but this board has been 100% flawless for me - worth a little extra money for the built in features and the fact that I don't have to mess with it
I wonder if this (or something like this) could handle heat and some humidity. I'm looking for something like a small digital whiteboard to put above my deep freezer, where I can make a list of all the items in the deep freezer, the expiration dates, etc. I'd also like it to look at the current date and when something is getting close to 90 days of expiring it'll highlight it in green, 60 days of expiring it'll highlight it in yellow, when it's 30 days of expiring orange and when it's expired highlight it in red. Also, some sort of check off/adding system, so when something is removed, it'll take it off the list, or if something is added, it's added to the list. This way you'd have an inventory at a glance when you go shopping... better yet, it'd be nice if you can have it to add staple items to your shopping list once you get down to x level ... or even where you can access the same list when you're at the grocery store. Another nice feature would be where you can see a log of the temp inside the freezer, preferably without a wire coming out of the freezer (bluetooth maybe??), so you can see what the temp is, and a record of the temp so you can see if it's went above freezing, etc.
A lot of work went into this video. Thanks for taking the time and effort Tom, I'm currently making a digital organiser for my wife and this video is invaluable.
FYI what you call the wiggly bit at the end of the tape measure has a purpose. That wiggle is really a gap that is the same as the thickness of the "wiggly bit" it self. Basically it so if you push or pull on the end of the tape you get the same measurement.
@Thomas Sanladerer check out xrandr for screen rotation, calling xrandr with no parameters lists connected screens and their ports. To rotate for example screen connected to port HDMI-1 (output on my PC) it should work with just: xrandr --output HDMI-1 --rotate right Then just place it to same place where you start Chromium. If you wanted to change more parameters, you can install simple graphical tool arandr (or lxrandr) - enable screens you want, set their resolution and rotation as you want and then save as file. It will generate batch file with command you can just copy into your LXDE autostart file and it should apply all changes. If Raspbian still uses xserver, then it should work with no problem. Also another autostart file is .xinitrc and that should be universal for any desktop environment.
Your boards are already glued staff stock. So as long as you cut your pieces along the grain direction, with top and bottom as two strips against the grain, you'd get the same effect with far less material spent. Doing this you could even slightly improve the cosmetics, by cutting your pieces between the glue joints.
my grandma have a calender in her kitchen too. i personally never understood why, i even don´t have any type of clock in my home. this video takes it not only to another level but rather to another dimension of things i´ll never able to get the point.
Do you have any concerns about Screen Burn since many of the elements won't ever move such as the lines dividing the calendar cells and the labels for the time? I don't know if screen burn is as big of a deal these days in general but just thought I'd ask.
@@z0178 Tom's method obviously worked out great for him, and I'm sure the accuracy of those cuts to shorten it were more accurate than a slightly bent tape measure tip.... /sarcasm Honestly for woodworking a slightly bent tape end (that is not bent enough to be noticable) is plenty accurate enough.
I want almost exactly this for my house, but with a touchscreen, plus an auxiliary keyboard with integrated touchpad on a fold-down shelf. Currently there's a wall that has a large blotter calendar, a white board, and a cork board which is the "family command center". Works well as it's in a place where everyone can see it... except me, when I'm at work. And nobody wants to add everything to two calendars (e.g. the paper one and a Google one) so I'm frequently in the dark about what's upcoming. I've wished for a long time for an electronic solution but large touchscreen displays are ruinously expensive and I only realized recently that touchscreen conversion frames were a thing and apparently work well enough for what I want to do. Problem is that with the TV (~$200), the Pi (~$100), the touchscreen conversion frame ($200), the keyboard ($20), and the wood and hardware to mount it and make it all look good, this would end up running well over $500, not to mention the time and effort. I think it would be a fun project though...
WRT the "wiggly end" on tape measures: It's a feature, not a bug. Really! It's there to allow for the width of the hook on the end of the tape: To take an inside measurement (a doorway, for instance), you push the front surface of the hook against one side; this makes the hook slide just far enough to put that front surface in the plane perpendicular to the tape's zero. To take an outside measurement, you hook the hook over one end of the thing and pull the tape: This makes the hook move just enough to put its back surface at zero. You should check your tape's accuracy every now and again - they wear. But no need to measure from somewhere other than zero and then remember to subtract.
exactly why I ended up here. Thinking about making a wall mount tablet that is 20+ inches for the kitchen to display calendar, to-do lists, and you can touch screen it to do more. Does anyone know if any touch screen will work with a Pi? I am just starting learning about them now.
One trick that you can use to get the IR remote working better is to make a "waveguide" from a piece of clear acrylic. Bevel the top and bottom of the piece to help internal reflection and leave the end of it poking out from the inside of your timber bezel.
In the AV world there is a flush TV Mount that is called a Rubberband Mount. Just two Metal Disks you attach to the wall and thick cable you attach to the VESA mounting on the TV. However it would be recommended to use a recessed electrical outlet. This way you only have to deal with the thickness of the TV itself. A honeydoo list is always fine but a stock ticker or local news ticker on the bottom is always great to have. If you listen to a lot of music while working you could have it show the Artist/Album/Song title in a little area.
You might reconsider using the wiggly end of the tape measure after you read this. The reason it is wiggly is to offset its own sickness. When you push it up against something it shifts just as much as it is sick same thing when you hook it on the edge of something and pull it it shifts back to offset so it always reads correctly
This is pretty great! Is there any way to incorporate a PIR motion sensor with the Raspberry Pi in order to keep the display off or dim until someone stands in front of it or walks past it? That way you wouldn't have to set a timer for turning it off and on.
@@MadeWithLayers actually LED screens are able to suffer from “burn in” but is a relatively easy fix, white screen for 6-8 hours and back to normal helps “reset” the affected pixels ,
"the wiggly end of the measuring tape" serves a real purpose. It allows for accurate measurements to inside and outside edges. Notice it wiggles by precisely the thickness of the metal hook.
I've built something similar, but was even lazier about it: One old Acer laptop from the dark ages, running Bliss OS (an android built for pc thing - it's free and good). I've got the bliss os/android/laptop hybrid monster using nova launcher. I attached and connected the laptop to the back of a 23inch Hanns G touchscreen panel and an old mini speaker I have lying around. I then sealed everything in a shadow box ( it's about 5 inches thick). Assistant can still pick up my voice from inside the closed laptop inside the shadow box - but I may fit a mini mic and camera upfront soon. Nova allows me to have greater control over widget placement and homescreen layout. I also have the added benefit of being able to launch any (most if using bliss os) android apps. It's kind of like a Google home hub screen that bigger and louder and cheaper but without the limitations. We have two homescreen pages, one is a notification weather, news,, email and calendar dash with a few core "buttons" for lights and smart plugs etc. The other is a complete control dashboard for all smart stuff. I cannot recommend this method enough, android looks beautiful blown up big and being able to launch my usual phone apps and use gesture control on my kitchen wall makes me feel like I'm I'm the future. 👾
Magic mirror without mirror? :hmm: I'm running five 50" 4K screens for dashboards at work, two of them powered by Raspberry Pi 3s with mentioned 4K@15Hz configs. However in my experience I think truth is that these dashboards are cool for few months and then you just forget them on the wall. The data on these dashboards must be simplified and easy to peek for quick information otherwise you stop caring what's visible there. :) Well, DIY projects aren't always mean to be long-lasting like maybe this one. The fun comes from building and configuring it.
Makita intro: perfect As a software engineer/programmer/whatever term you actually agree with, MagicMirror 2's documentation is about what I expect. Unless you are willing to pay the developer making free/OSS for a desired feature, they will make it as utilitarian as possible as it's easier to add/modify features. That's why the paid software is so easy... because you are paying the developers for it. Though, doing CSS and half the configuration you did for the RPi is... about as complex as MM2's docs seem to indicate, so not really getting the complexity argument. I've been putting off setting up one of these for way too long. Thanks for making one.
Very cool, I'm trying to start a kiosk company and this video helped fill in some gaps. When I saw the dry erase board being demoted I thought, yep that's something I would have done. My suggestion for the to-do area is to divide it in two or three sections, so you can see upcoming tasks, one task per square. Good job with the frame!
That's right, the end pulls slightly outwards for making outside measurements (tape in tension), and then for inside measurements (tape in compression) it pushes inwards by the thickness of the end piece. This compensates for the thickness of the end piece.
seems like a great use-case for e-paper. much more energy saving and with better viewing angles less annoying reflections and easy readability in a brightly lit room. I wonder how much a similar-sized e-ink display would cost.
I would like to know more about the music clips used. What I would do, add a motion sensor that could be used to turn on the screen, and off if no movement had been detected. With a long timeout for off of course. I am using some cheapy microwave sensors bought from Aliexpress for about a dollar. They are very sensitive. This could save some power and extend the life of the screen for some people.
All my music is from Epidemic Sound! share.epidemicsound.com/MadeWithLayers Nice tip with the microwave/radar sensors - I've only used PIR in the past, but radar could be a more sensitive option.
Totally agree. We have a small picture frame that cycles pictures with the date and time in the corner that is activated with a PIR sensor. Definitely more energy efficient.
Agreed. Though depending on monitor/TV the wake time might be annoying - using an OLED would help, but also be insanely expensive. Perhaps setting it so that between 6am and 6pm or something motion causes it to turn on immediately and off after 10 minutes without motion, but between 6pm and 6am it turns on only after say 15 seconds of motion but off after only like 2 minutes without motion - if you had to check it it'd kick on but if you walked past at night it wouldn't turn on.
I have a similar project running. I'd recommend the following, the chromium browser and the rest of the system is constantly writing to your card, you can check for IO activity using an utility like iotop. All that small file writing will kill your SD card fairly quick. Install profile-sync-daemon to send the chromium profile to RAM, and install log2ram for everything else.
@@northwindx79 well, the thing is this: I am considering two possibilities regarding your original comment: either you could be (proficient in) German, then our sense of humor is just not similar enough. That would be fair enough. Or you could be an English native speaker, then you should probably try to make videos in another language yourself. Third possibility: I got lost in the one-dimensionality of written communication and it's neither option. ;)
Same. But every time I look at prices for this (which has been like every 6 months for the past 2 years), E-ink displays are still very expensive and not very big. Like commonly available e-ink displays for the Pi are like 7-inches big for $500. And refurbished kindle screens aren’t much bigger. Something as big as a sheet of printer paper 8.5” x 11” doesn’t even seem to be available outside of bulk/commercial pricing, let alone something as big as what he has hanging on the wall there... oh yes, and those are all monochrome. Just forget color e ink exists because you can’t get your hands on them... 😩
You could add one of those IR repeaters used for keeping your misc units contained within a closed cupboard to avoid having a hole in the frame. Or possibly even make some IR hardware for the Pi and let it control the TV via CEC.
That's so cool. Thinking about the productive side of it, it is so useful :D I should make one of these too, buuut I would put it into an infinity mirror. *project ideas pop in mind* Great work, Thomas! Congrats :)
If you're still looking for something other than a To-Do list to display at the bottom of the screen I would suggest a news-scrawler or perhaps a stock-scrawler if you follow stocks. The only downside is that the motion could be distracting.
For the blank space you might consider traffic info/travel time if you have an upcoming appointment with location. Additionally, you could scroll news headlines or sports scores, and if you wanted whimsy and a smile, maybe put a joke of the day in that space.
You could wire a PIR sensor to the GPIO of the pi and use that to trigger HDMI CEC on/off commands via a little script. that way it only comes on when it sees you coming near it and then can turn off again after a few minutes of no-activity.
"And since it will be on for 10 hours a day..." I see Tom couldn't get the motion sensor plug in working on his installation either. And yes, Magic Mirror needs a settings interface with APIs.
Has no one mentioned that cool Pulp Fiction reference at 6:44? Sweet video! I think I shall make one. My ADHD requires me to maintain important info in front of my eyes, or else I just forget. What a great solution.
Great build and great video. I like to see it when people actually make a mistake and they own up to it in my mind it gives the video more authenticity. I've missed measure things in the past and it Easley to do. As the old saying says measure twice cut once.
The wiggly end of a tape measure is actually wiggling exactly the thickness of itself, making the measurement correct both when pushing up against something or spanning the tape from an edge! :)
The wiggly part of the tape measure is there to accurately measure inside and outside measurements. It's easier to use it than to start somewhere else and her funky numbers that still need more math.
I did something similar to what Thomas did but used a touchscreen monitor. It's a royal PITA to get the monitor and the PI and the touch to all play nicely. If the display is turned then the touch doesn't rotate so your presses don't line up. I'm still trying to work it out and gave up for a few weeks.
@@diymatt i recently had the same Problem. You just need to use "xinput list" to show all your input devices. Get the ID and the driver name for the touchscreen. Then Google how you can change the Rotation/Axis/Inversion for the driver of the Touchscreen with "xinput set-prop" . Eg the evdev driver for some devices. Its honestly not so much work to find out. Hope that was the notch in the right direction and you now what to Google for.
I'm not sure if you ever revisited this project or amplified based on suggestions, but I was thinking that blank space you were asking about would be great for a larger, more in-depth reading on the current day's agenda (i.e event name, event time, location, party members, etc.) and have it cycle every 15 seconds to any additional events that day. Furthermore, I would say to link this to a calendar such as outlook, Google calendar, etc. which would refresh every minute to 5 minutes to reduce energy consumption and could let you plug in information remotely or even from an Alexa or Google Home device.
The wiggly end on the measuring tape has a purpose!
If you push against something it will give you a correct measurement and if you pull on it the wiggly bit will adjust so the measurement is accurate as well. By being wiggly it corrects the error due to the thickness of the metal bit.
did not know that but it makes sense
heh...another woodworker on here!
Yes, as anton said, the amount of play in the end, is meant to offset the thickness of the end.
Yes, tape measure is handy for measuring real world spaces but when marking out work Ive always done the same thing, go from the 10cm mark. It does make it more accurate if you're going for precision& ive also made the same mistake as forgetting to deduct it.
You took the words out of my mouth, but I have to confess that when I'm doing tight tolerance stuff like cabinetmaking, I measure everything from the 100mm (10cm).
When I do carpentry, then trusting the hook is all good for that for me where slight 1mm+/- tolerances are ok if it happens.
I'm a tradesman, are you a tradie too?
@@Colaaah I like the wooden collapsible rulers with the 6in slide piece at one end for tight spaces
"...doing anything in the future would mean re-learning the whole thing..." THIS IS MY LIFE! I am constantly having to re-learn. I truly appreciate that someone understands this. I am totally going to make one of these. As always, a fan.
My respect for you that admitted the error, this is a sign of maturity and good will. I hope your work could give you satisfaction in this life.
Hey Thomas never buy a tv mount again unless you need the tv to swivel
the best easiest and cheapest way to mount a tv and literally make it earthquake proof is by using two french cleats
directly bolted to the vesa mount and the other part on the wall . the best part is you can pretty much make them in a
couple minutes just using some wood a saw and a drill. best part is you can take the tv off the wall and put it back in seconds
I'm an IT Systems Administrator and Woodworker and this has never occurred to me! All my cabinets in my workshop are on french cleats!
This is how I am doing it as well. I have a 55 inch done this way. So i would say it works at least up to that size.
I have french cleats all over my garage, and use them in my game room for the tv and other shelving - totally awesome.
(I had to make them nice and stain them for the wife).
Thats a very unsafe way to hang a tv. You can get a flat tilting wall mount these days for $15. Imagine you have guests over to your house, someone bumps into the TV and it falls on them. Now you have a lawsuit on your hands because there's nobody else to blame for building the mount that failed
@@andrewredding3132 what kind of guests do you have that would sue you for their error of bumping the tv down? lol
the "wiggly end" or hook on a tape measure moves to compensate for the thickness of the hook so you get the same measurement whether you push the tape up to something or hook it on to pull.
But it is only good for measuring from an edge away from the tape and where you have space for the hook. It is in the way when you want to measure from anything else.
I am disabled with very low vision in just one eye and you have designed the perfect digital dashboard system I need to make scheduling and tracking deadlines accessible to me. This is my dream tool. I so wish that I had the technical knowledge to follow what you have done and could build this but I do not. II was in a very bad auto accident 10 years ago when another driver ran a red light and totaled my car.---my vision and ability to speak was lost, and I did not even know who I was or where I was even in my own home. I have fought my way back with 4-5 hrs of physical therapy a day, lots of brain work etc. am on disability and my dream is to go back to work. It took me years to convince Vocational Rehabilitation Services to send me back to school, but I am in my first year of an MBA program and I am succeeding in spite of many challenges. Organizing and staying on top of my schedule is actually one of my biggest challenges. I have gotten a few lower grades because of missing a due date because its so hard for me to track 100's of pages of reading, multiple papers, group projects, 6 exams and up to 50 quizzes every 7 weeks a quarter. I have been saying for years that a large electronic wall calendar would be the most awesome tool--one that I desperately need now I am in school and wanting to work. Everyone has kind of just said oh, that would be nice but it doesn't exist. And here you have created a digital dashboard wall system--just what I need with a large screen display that I could "see"--perfect!! How much does it cost to build one? Nancy Lucas
Nancy Lucas Well an Raspberry Pi 4 costs around 60 bucks you can probably google it and check the price for your local area.
And the cost of the tv is very flexible since you can choose any tv or monitor I think.
Then a cheapo tv wall mount.
And you don't need to make a frame 🖼 for it so even cheaper.
You don't really need a wooden frame for it although I think the programming part of the project would be the biggest problem for you so you might wanna get a hand from someone else.
For energy saving, I would consider installing a motion sensor for the screen in your frame.
Or even something as simple as proximity sensor.
That depends. Some TVs take a few long seconds to turn on and show content.
That just crossed my mind (just watched the video and was about to comment)
Then you can just hookup your security system to detect any movemnt in the house to turn tv on. Also if you have presenced information from something like home assistant you can turn it off if no one is home.
@@PhilippBlum Time is also money. If you have to loiter around the screen for a minute for it to start showing anything, then just open the calendar app on your phone instead. If you want to save time, have this running during the time you're in the office. If you want to save on energy, use your phone.
Looks great! Things I might add to the screen: 1) Public transport info for local lines/buses 2)Small front door entrance camera image 3) Total power consumption details.
Thomas is so smart and articulate it's refreshing to see he makes mistakes like the rest of with that bezel measurement.
Yes....I would have been throwing stuff and inventing new curse words if that happened to me.
@@EnuffsEnuff318 lol, you aren't the only one :p
I respect the fact you had a major error and corrected it perfectly !
I rebuilt this project and love it. I built my own digital part of it (designing the dashboard without the use of DAKBoard), which makes it very individual and I can display anything I want and need (like crypto prices for my case). Also, I was able to turn the tv off, when the phone of my girlfriend and me are outside of our WiFi and automatically turns back on when one of both phones is back. Makes it more energy saving and without the use of a PIR ;)
Did you just make a website?
@@KevinJohnMulligan yep, just created a little website for it, so I have my own individual content
Thank you for including your frustrations, mistakes, and false starts. It's really encouraging and a good lesson. Keep up the good work!
I love your Pulp Fiction innuendo at 6:43. Your video quality and professionalism seem to increase with every video.
Love this idea! I was planning on making a MagicMirror, but this is much more along the lines of what my wife wanted. I build most of our furniture, so the frame part was no big deal, but your instructions and recommendation for Dakboard made the whole thing simple!! We have our shared calendar, ToDo list, weather and even Life360 locations displayed on a 28" LG TV (portrait) between our kitchen and dining room.
Thanks for this idea, and the step-by-step links!!
Very cool project! You could even add video streams from 3D printer webcams at the bottom to monitor prints.
10:45 "... don't have to deal with the wiggly end..." Face palm! The wiggly end have a purpose. It slides in and out the precise length of the thickness of the metal bit, so the measurements will be precise no matter if you measure from the inside or the outside.
this guy is a hack. it's not the first time he makes stuff about things he has no idea about. he makes pretty stuff that looks pretty on color graded video. I have serious doubts about the quality of his work.
Thank you for the inspiration. I put it behind a see-through acrylic mirror, and added an arduino with two ultrasonic modules as an input interface for gesture control. I can swipe with my hand to change between the information screen (family calendar and tasklist, weather and traffic info) and an empty screen with just a digital clock, so I can use it as a mirror, too. It also allows future expansion.
FANTASTIC project! You’re right, I wasn’t asleep ;)
You never sleep, when there is 3D Printing to be done!
You still know your sleeping schedule from August the 17th ?
@@TheRcEngineer Surprisingly - yes.
Classic Joel!
I really appreciate that you were transparent about making a mistake. Most people never show those parts.
This is one of the projects that would really benefit from a PIR sensor to switch on/off dynamically and not based on a set time. Still an amazing build and a great idea! ;)
This! It's also easy to implement...
A regular tv shutting down and turning on can take a long time for older TVs.
@@xoniq-vr it's a 4k tv if I'm not mistaken, so I guess it's not that old. But you are right, it's probably not the best idea to make it turn off every 2 minutes or so
I was thinking the same - that a PIR sensor would be a great addition - but I've seen even quite new TVs (and PC monitors) that can take a frustrating amount of time to turn on. I think it would really depend not only on how fast your particular TV/monitor went from off to displaying a stable image (and without overlaying a huge on-screen display informing you that, yes, it's still on the HDMI input!!), but also on your particular use case and physical environment - i.e. could you usefully position the PIR so that, when you walk up to the screen, the PIR turned the TV on a sufficient amount of time before you were actually standing in front of it/wanting to read it.
You'd almost certainly want to crank up the timeout on the PIR sensor as well, so that it wasn't turning off "every 2 minutes or so" as The Tinker Dad mentioned. You'd want to find a happy balance between energy saving and not having it turn on/off too rapidly.
You'd especially want to do that with older TVs with CCFL-backlit displays (... no one's planning to do this project with a 40" CRT or projection-based TV, right‽ 🙀). I don't really know for sure how TVs would cope, long-term, with being turned on and off several dozen times per day, but I imagine that newer LED-backlit TVs would handle it much better than CCFL-based displays, due to the high-voltage circuitry used to drive CCFLs.
You might be able to have the TV/monitor turn off just the display, which would probably make it faster to come back. Maybe use that at first and then turn it off fully after a longer delay - similar to how Windows is often configured to turn off the screen after a few minutes and then sleep the whole PC after half an hour or so.
I still wouldn't be surprised if a TV used for something like this needed its power supply capacitors replaced after a few years - but honestly, if you have basic soldering skills, recapping a TV/monitor power supply is usually easy enough and is a very useful skill to have, given how often a dead TV/monitor merely has a couple of failed electrolytic capacitors, so for a few currency units and an hour or two of your time you can have a fully-working display again! :) (Just *WATCH OUT for the mains-voltage bits!!* Obviously unplug it from the mains before removing the cover, but the capacitors on the mains side of the power supply can hold a *nasty* charge, even several days after unplugging it! Anything up to 340V is possible, depending on where you live and the circuitry in question, and that's not something you want to feel the sharp end of!)
Jelle Posthuma Yeah sure, but you could increase the interval to find the sweet spot and SmartTVs nowadays have a semi sleep function (my LG takes just 5s from being off to running Netflix for example)
I respect your hard work and patience to create something like this in this program, after a week of trying, I simply turned it off.
Dude, incase you didn't know, you, are a genius.
Thank you for sharing when you realized you had built the wrong frame size. That was the most honest and relatable moment.
10:41 The wiggle in the end of the tape measure is intentional, the hook can move the same distance as the thickness of the metal so it can measure correctly using either side of the hook
Tom, I did kind of the same thing you did, except I went with PiSignage. It has a lot of great plugins for weather, task lists (I went with TinyToDo), and much more. I was also able to show content from multiple web pages on the same screen and uploaded pics of scenery to make a window to anywhere. The cloud access is nice as well. I like that you can group Pis into different content lists and update them all with a single click. As for cost. It's free to use if you have 1 or 2 Pis. Beyond that, I think the price is still fairly reasonable.
Great project. Personally i use magic mirror. But i suggest you use a pir or a radar sensor to detect if someone is near to only show the screen then. It save a lot of energy
I am a huge fan of PetRockBlock's PowerBlock for adding a Raspberry Pi power switch. Using them on almost all of my Pi projects now. They have a separate LED indicator light circuit as well as a standalone 5v output. One click of a button, the software starts a safe shutdown of the pi, the LED indicator illuminates in different patterns to let you know what is happening, and after safe Pi shutdown it cuts power to the 5V out line which in turn switches off my MeanWell power supply (RSP series, which has a remote on/off capability). Adafruit has a new RGB version of the ubiquitous LED ring power switch, so I can now use LED color as an indicator in addition to the flashing pattern. Yes you can roll your own safe shutdown switch for a little less money, but this board has been 100% flawless for me - worth a little extra money for the built in features and the fact that I don't have to mess with it
11:58 'fine tune with a hammer' is not a phrase you often hear
I wonder if this (or something like this) could handle heat and some humidity. I'm looking for something like a small digital whiteboard to put above my deep freezer, where I can make a list of all the items in the deep freezer, the expiration dates, etc. I'd also like it to look at the current date and when something is getting close to 90 days of expiring it'll highlight it in green, 60 days of expiring it'll highlight it in yellow, when it's 30 days of expiring orange and when it's expired highlight it in red. Also, some sort of check off/adding system, so when something is removed, it'll take it off the list, or if something is added, it's added to the list. This way you'd have an inventory at a glance when you go shopping... better yet, it'd be nice if you can have it to add staple items to your shopping list once you get down to x level ... or even where you can access the same list when you're at the grocery store.
Another nice feature would be where you can see a log of the temp inside the freezer, preferably without a wire coming out of the freezer (bluetooth maybe??), so you can see what the temp is, and a record of the temp so you can see if it's went above freezing, etc.
Crap, I just realized I left the private screen URL visible at 16:55...
Oohhh go there quick before he fixes it, you won't believe what Tom has got planned!
i cannot believe this
Thomas Sanladerer now we’ll all know what your calendar looks like :3
Measure twice, cut once. Nice recovery and great you showed us all how thing can go wrong but work out OK. Loved this video a nice change, respect.
Measure once, cut.
Um....cut again.
Um.....
A lot of work went into this video. Thanks for taking the time and effort Tom, I'm currently making a digital organiser for my wife and this video is invaluable.
FYI what you call the wiggly bit at the end of the tape measure has a purpose. That wiggle is really a gap that is the same as the thickness of the "wiggly bit" it self. Basically it so if you push or pull on the end of the tape you get the same measurement.
@Thomas Sanladerer check out xrandr for screen rotation, calling xrandr with no parameters lists connected screens and their ports. To rotate for example screen connected to port HDMI-1 (output on my PC) it should work with just: xrandr --output HDMI-1 --rotate right
Then just place it to same place where you start Chromium. If you wanted to change more parameters, you can install simple graphical tool arandr (or lxrandr) - enable screens you want, set their resolution and rotation as you want and then save as file. It will generate batch file with command you can just copy into your LXDE autostart file and it should apply all changes. If Raspbian still uses xserver, then it should work with no problem. Also another autostart file is .xinitrc and that should be universal for any desktop environment.
Your boards are already glued staff stock. So as long as you cut your pieces along the grain direction, with top and bottom as two strips against the grain, you'd get the same effect with far less material spent. Doing this you could even slightly improve the cosmetics, by cutting your pieces between the glue joints.
Would love to hear if you have "improved" your project.
my grandma have a calender in her kitchen too. i personally never understood why, i even don´t have any type of clock in my home. this video takes it not only to another level but rather to another dimension of things i´ll never able to get the point.
(Some people like being productive)
Do you have any concerns about Screen Burn since many of the elements won't ever move such as the lines dividing the calendar cells and the labels for the time? I don't know if screen burn is as big of a deal these days in general but just thought I'd ask.
Can I just say that having an extra flue for futureproofing is brilliant.
And using it to run solar panel cables is even brilliant-er.
"can be used as a family planner" GREAT! I'll get rid of the condoms then!
I was about to write LOL, but that would probably have been misunderstood, because I literally laughed out loud :D
Different definition of "family planning" lol
😂😂😂
Too risky
is it what they call the calendar method?
I love that he threw in the mistake and corrected it.
"deal with the wiggly end".... it "wiggles" so that your measurement isn't off by the thickness of the tip of the tape measure.
More about easier accuracy than having to rely on a moving bit that might have been slightly bent.
@@z0178 Tom's method obviously worked out great for him, and I'm sure the accuracy of those cuts to shorten it were more accurate than a slightly bent tape measure tip.... /sarcasm
Honestly for woodworking a slightly bent tape end (that is not bent enough to be noticable) is plenty accurate enough.
Really, I just didn't want to scratch the screen... But, yeah, using the tape properly would have been quite a bit more accurate in the end 😅
I want almost exactly this for my house, but with a touchscreen, plus an auxiliary keyboard with integrated touchpad on a fold-down shelf.
Currently there's a wall that has a large blotter calendar, a white board, and a cork board which is the "family command center". Works well as it's in a place where everyone can see it... except me, when I'm at work. And nobody wants to add everything to two calendars (e.g. the paper one and a Google one) so I'm frequently in the dark about what's upcoming.
I've wished for a long time for an electronic solution but large touchscreen displays are ruinously expensive and I only realized recently that touchscreen conversion frames were a thing and apparently work well enough for what I want to do.
Problem is that with the TV (~$200), the Pi (~$100), the touchscreen conversion frame ($200), the keyboard ($20), and the wood and hardware to mount it and make it all look good, this would end up running well over $500, not to mention the time and effort. I think it would be a fun project though...
I have wanted a calendar on my wall like this for so long thank you very much for this project. Awesome work!
WRT the "wiggly end" on tape measures: It's a feature, not a bug. Really! It's there to allow for the width of the hook on the end of the tape: To take an inside measurement (a doorway, for instance), you push the front surface of the hook against one side; this makes the hook slide just far enough to put that front surface in the plane perpendicular to the tape's zero. To take an outside measurement, you hook the hook over one end of the thing and pull the tape: This makes the hook move just enough to put its back surface at zero. You should check your tape's accuracy every now and again - they wear. But no need to measure from somewhere other than zero and then remember to subtract.
Great! If it was touchscreen, would be amazing!
exactly why I ended up here. Thinking about making a wall mount tablet that is 20+ inches for the kitchen to display calendar, to-do lists, and you can touch screen it to do more. Does anyone know if any touch screen will work with a Pi? I am just starting learning about them now.
Nice project! And as far as "resizing" your frame - A true craftsman is he who makes mistakes but knows how to hide them.
I didn't quite follow why "xrandr --rotate right" didn't work. What happened when you rotated the display?
One trick that you can use to get the IR remote working better is to make a "waveguide" from a piece of clear acrylic. Bevel the top and bottom of the piece to help internal reflection and leave the end of it poking out from the inside of your timber bezel.
Love the Pulp Fiction reference at 6:46!
I already thought noone noticed though it's so obvious... Guess we're too old ;)
In the AV world there is a flush TV Mount that is called a Rubberband Mount. Just two Metal Disks you attach to the wall and thick cable you attach to the VESA mounting on the TV. However it would be recommended to use a recessed electrical outlet. This way you only have to deal with the thickness of the TV itself.
A honeydoo list is always fine but a stock ticker or local news ticker on the bottom is always great to have. If you listen to a lot of music while working you could have it show the Artist/Album/Song title in a little area.
Also, you could just vesa mount the screen to the frame itself instead of the wall.
You might reconsider using the wiggly end of the tape measure after you read this. The reason it is wiggly is to offset its own sickness. When you push it up against something it shifts just as much as it is sick same thing when you hook it on the edge of something and pull it it shifts back to offset so it always reads correctly
This is pretty great! Is there any way to incorporate a PIR motion sensor with the Raspberry Pi in order to keep the display off or dim until someone stands in front of it or walks past it? That way you wouldn't have to set a timer for turning it off and on.
I'm glad you're getting into broader DIY than just 3D printing.
Still think a mirror is cooler than just a screen.
Question: Does the screen burn-in occur faster from leaving the exact same screen for 10 hours a day?
Modern LCD screens, unlike OLED or Plasma, do not suffer from burn-in.
@@MadeWithLayers actually LED screens are able to suffer from “burn in” but is a relatively easy fix, white screen for 6-8 hours and back to normal helps “reset” the affected pixels ,
"the wiggly end of the measuring tape" serves a real purpose. It allows for accurate measurements to inside and outside edges. Notice it wiggles by precisely the thickness of the metal hook.
I would love to see it work with the assistant (Google or Alexa).
I've built something similar, but was even lazier about it:
One old Acer laptop from the dark ages, running Bliss OS (an android built for pc thing - it's free and good). I've got the bliss os/android/laptop hybrid monster using nova launcher.
I attached and connected the laptop to the back of a 23inch Hanns G touchscreen panel and an old mini speaker I have lying around. I then sealed everything in a shadow box ( it's about 5 inches thick).
Assistant can still pick up my voice from inside the closed laptop inside the shadow box - but I may fit a mini mic and camera upfront soon.
Nova allows me to have greater control over widget placement and homescreen layout. I also have the added benefit of being able to launch any (most if using bliss os) android apps. It's kind of like a Google home hub screen that bigger and louder and cheaper but without the limitations.
We have two homescreen pages, one is a notification weather, news,, email and calendar dash with a few core "buttons" for lights and smart plugs etc.
The other is a complete control dashboard for all smart stuff.
I cannot recommend this method enough, android looks beautiful blown up big and being able to launch my usual phone apps and use gesture control on my kitchen wall makes me feel like I'm I'm the future. 👾
Magic mirror without mirror? :hmm:
I'm running five 50" 4K screens for dashboards at work, two of them powered by Raspberry Pi 3s with mentioned 4K@15Hz configs. However in my experience I think truth is that these dashboards are cool for few months and then you just forget them on the wall. The data on these dashboards must be simplified and easy to peek for quick information otherwise you stop caring what's visible there. :)
Well, DIY projects aren't always mean to be long-lasting like maybe this one. The fun comes from building and configuring it.
Insomniumer what kind of work do you do?
@@JLake3D Network Operations Center, it means a lot of stuff (networks, servers) to monitor in real-time.
Makita intro: perfect
As a software engineer/programmer/whatever term you actually agree with, MagicMirror 2's documentation is about what I expect. Unless you are willing to pay the developer making free/OSS for a desired feature, they will make it as utilitarian as possible as it's easier to add/modify features. That's why the paid software is so easy... because you are paying the developers for it.
Though, doing CSS and half the configuration you did for the RPi is... about as complex as MM2's docs seem to indicate, so not really getting the complexity argument.
I've been putting off setting up one of these for way too long. Thanks for making one.
It seems quite an extravagant use of electricity.
These setups use surprisingly little energy.
I feel the "I like to make Stuff" vibes here
I was watching with little attention and just assumed it was him
Love my Dakboard display in my kitchen! Powered by a Raspberry Pi Zero W. Just perfect for what we needed.
Show the latest XKCD in that free space
Very cool, I'm trying to start a kiosk company and this video helped fill in some gaps. When I saw the dry erase board being demoted I thought, yep that's something I would have done. My suggestion for the to-do area is to divide it in two or three sections, so you can see upcoming tasks, one task per square. Good job with the frame!
You're never going to be able to move with all the house mods you've made. 😄
Germans don't move like Americans.
the wiggley end is like that for a reason. It doesn't make the measurements inaccurate. If i remember correctly the wiggle is 1/16th of an inch.
That's right, the end pulls slightly outwards for making outside measurements (tape in tension), and then for inside measurements (tape in compression) it pushes inwards by the thickness of the end piece. This compensates for the thickness of the end piece.
Could be a really great project for anyone with unused screens lying around, I like this.
And enough unused time on google calendar
seems like a great use-case for e-paper. much more energy saving and with better viewing angles less annoying reflections and easy readability in a brightly lit room.
I wonder how much a similar-sized e-ink display would cost.
I would like to know more about the music clips used.
What I would do, add a motion sensor that could be used to turn on the screen, and off if no movement had been detected. With a long timeout for off of course. I am using some cheapy microwave sensors bought from Aliexpress for about a dollar. They are very sensitive. This could save some power and extend the life of the screen for some people.
All my music is from Epidemic Sound! share.epidemicsound.com/MadeWithLayers
Nice tip with the microwave/radar sensors - I've only used PIR in the past, but radar could be a more sensitive option.
Thumbs up for the honesty about messing up the frame the first time 😂
you can add a motion sensor to turn on and off the monitor
Totally agree. We have a small picture frame that cycles pictures with the date and time in the corner that is activated with a PIR sensor. Definitely more energy efficient.
Agreed. Though depending on monitor/TV the wake time might be annoying - using an OLED would help, but also be insanely expensive.
Perhaps setting it so that between 6am and 6pm or something motion causes it to turn on immediately and off after 10 minutes without motion, but between 6pm and 6am it turns on only after say 15 seconds of motion but off after only like 2 minutes without motion - if you had to check it it'd kick on but if you walked past at night it wouldn't turn on.
I have a similar project running. I'd recommend the following, the chromium browser and the rest of the system is constantly writing to your card, you can check for IO activity using an utility like iotop. All that small file writing will kill your SD card fairly quick. Install profile-sync-daemon to send the chromium profile to RAM, and install log2ram for everything else.
I absolutely love the "Dachlatten"
Lmao
Had to rewind a couple of times, to check if I heard that correctly xD
Greetings from Dresden ;)
time to learn some proper englisch pronunciation thomas, ppl r having hard time to understand u properly.
@@northwindx79 saying this because you are a Native? (Just curious;))
@@pentasonicnaturephotograph6937 i will not answer your question because what you asked is just an oxymoron. try to make sense next time.
@@northwindx79 well, the thing is this: I am considering two possibilities regarding your original comment: either you could be (proficient in) German, then our sense of humor is just not similar enough. That would be fair enough. Or you could be an English native speaker, then you should probably try to make videos in another language yourself. Third possibility: I got lost in the one-dimensionality of written communication and it's neither option. ;)
@@northwindx79 In Deutschland nennt man jemanden dann "Vollpfosten".
The tape measure hook "wiggly thing" is made like that to give you the perfect measurement using either the outside or inside of the hook.
@10:40 Been there, done that. I've told myself so many times: "Should've checked if it fits before finishing it completely..."
This man real skulls, hard & soft. Much respect ✊🏾
I want this But With E-paper!
It would use much less power, have great viewing angles and not emit light during night.
Same. But every time I look at prices for this (which has been like every 6 months for the past 2 years), E-ink displays are still very expensive and not very big. Like commonly available e-ink displays for the Pi are like 7-inches big for $500. And refurbished kindle screens aren’t much bigger. Something as big as a sheet of printer paper 8.5” x 11” doesn’t even seem to be available outside of bulk/commercial pricing, let alone something as big as what he has hanging on the wall there... oh yes, and those are all monochrome. Just forget color e ink exists because you can’t get your hands on them... 😩
You could add one of those IR repeaters used for keeping your misc units contained within a closed cupboard to avoid having a hole in the frame. Or possibly even make some IR hardware for the Pi and let it control the TV via CEC.
That's so cool. Thinking about the productive side of it, it is so useful :D
I should make one of these too, buuut I would put it into an infinity mirror.
*project ideas pop in mind*
Great work, Thomas! Congrats :)
If you're still looking for something other than a To-Do list to display at the bottom of the screen I would suggest a news-scrawler or perhaps a stock-scrawler if you follow stocks. The only downside is that the motion could be distracting.
Would you please share the STLs for the printed vents? Very nice project!
For the blank space you might consider traffic info/travel time if you have an upcoming appointment with location. Additionally, you could scroll news headlines or sports scores, and if you wanted whimsy and a smile, maybe put a joke of the day in that space.
You could place a News RSS feed in the bottom section of the calendar.
You could wire a PIR sensor to the GPIO of the pi and use that to trigger HDMI CEC on/off commands via a little script. that way it only comes on when it sees you coming near it and then can turn off again after a few minutes of no-activity.
I was about to write the same suggestion
"And since it will be on for 10 hours a day..." I see Tom couldn't get the motion sensor plug in working on his installation either.
And yes, Magic Mirror needs a settings interface with APIs.
Has no one mentioned that cool Pulp Fiction reference at 6:44? Sweet video! I think I shall make one. My ADHD requires me to maintain important info in front of my eyes, or else I just forget. What a great solution.
WOW, that is huge calendar. I hope you don't have any sensitive meetings in it, when you have guests :DD
Like dinners with different girlfriends? 😉
Super DIY project using both Hitech and handy man skills. Love your skills
@6:42 - Love the Pulp Fiction reference!
Great build and great video. I like to see it when people actually make a mistake and they own up to it in my mind it gives the video more authenticity. I've missed measure things in the past and it Easley to do. As the old saying says measure twice cut once.
First of all, very well thought through. Also well implemented and designed too. Great Job!
The wiggly end of a tape measure is actually wiggling exactly the thickness of itself, making the measurement correct both when pushing up against something or spanning the tape from an edge! :)
if you like SpaceX & co you could display their next launches
That´s a great idea. I would like to know, if and how you can show the timeline of for example Next Spaceflight.
It was nice to see another younger dude using hand planes instead of joiners and power planers! Great job man
To bad that MPCNC was not available for the router work on the frame :)
The wiggly part of the tape measure is there to accurately measure inside and outside measurements. It's easier to use it than to start somewhere else and her funky numbers that still need more math.
Would that be cool if that had touch screen...
I did something similar to what Thomas did but used a touchscreen monitor. It's a royal PITA to get the monitor and the PI and the touch to all play nicely. If the display is turned then the touch doesn't rotate so your presses don't line up. I'm still trying to work it out and gave up for a few weeks.
I would add a leap motion below the screen and use gestures to control it.
@@diymatt i recently had the same Problem. You just need to use "xinput list" to show all your input devices. Get the ID and the driver name for the touchscreen. Then Google how you can change the Rotation/Axis/Inversion for the driver of the Touchscreen with "xinput set-prop" . Eg the evdev driver for some devices. Its honestly not so much work to find out. Hope that was the notch in the right direction and you now what to Google for.
@@diymatt assuming you are using some kind of Linux device with xorg interface like the raspberry pi
@@THEiDATA WHOAH, that was super helpful. Yep, using a Pi too. Thanks!
I'm not sure if you ever revisited this project or amplified based on suggestions, but I was thinking that blank space you were asking about would be great for a larger, more in-depth reading on the current day's agenda (i.e event name, event time, location, party members, etc.) and have it cycle every 15 seconds to any additional events that day. Furthermore, I would say to link this to a calendar such as outlook, Google calendar, etc. which would refresh every minute to 5 minutes to reduce energy consumption and could let you plug in information remotely or even from an Alexa or Google Home device.
Add a camera to use it as mirror when in hurry to office..