Aerospace Engineer
Stephen Hall
Mini Projects
Raspberry Pi Photo Booth
Assembling the Box
After laser engraving the wood sheets, I had glued L brackets to the inside of the box and sanded the edges.
One of my recent projects was creating a Raspberry Pi based Photo Booth for Family Weekend at Arizona State University. The photo booth runs off an open source python program called TouchSelfie which was edited by a collogue of mine while I created the housing for it to sit in. I had laser engraved a wooden box out of plywood and left the back open to display the inner workings of the photo booth. I also sanded and painted the box, and cut out vinyl stickers to place on the front of it. I then installed a touch screen monitor on the front and attached the raspberry pi and supplied a power source. My contribution was ensuring the code worked properly and ensuring the application was launched when the raspberry pi was first turned on as well as building the entire housing unit.
Smart Mirror
Choosing a Monitor
It was important to choose a monitor that was thin and light enough to be hidden behind a picture frame.
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This past summer, I had created and designed a smart mirror for my girlfriend. This smart mirror appears to be a regular mirror until power on and can then display information and text behind the mirror. This was completed using a two-way mirror with a computer monitor secured behind it that would display any desired information. The monitor was powered by a raspberry pi and coded in python, which would automatically pull up a website when first turned on. This website was created using basic html and would display the time, weather, unread emails, personal twitter feed, calendar events and daily messages.
The first step was creating the website, and learning how to use basic html to display all required information and connect to a personal google account. For the website, I had created a black background that would display everything with a white text, making it seem like the text would be floating and appearing behind the mirror. Once the website was finished, the frame was built by hand sawing wood molding and gluing it to create a custom sized frame to perfectly hold and display the computer monitor. I then laser engraved a clear acrylic sheet to perfectly overlay the computer monitor and applied a two way mirror film to the surface of the acrylic. This made it appear like a regular glass mirror but also allowed the monitor to display the information from behind it. The raspberry pi was then installed and coded to connect to the internet and automatically open the website full screen.