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Venkatesh Varadachari
Learn how to build, design, and Customize your very own Raspberry Pi powered smart mirror!
Updated on Sep, 2026
IT and Software , Hardware, Raspberry Pi
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This course is meant as a active learning/DIY project to learn the basics of scripting languages, while working on something fun.
This course will focus upon teaching you to setup and build your own smart mirror display. This involves creating and coding a custom web page and hosting it on a Raspberry Pi using the Apache HTTP server application.
To learn how to build your own magic mirror, we will first focus on writing a base HTML script for the website, and adding basic elements - a clock, a periodically updating news feed, and a periodically updating weather feed, to it. Once this is done, we will create a cascading style sheet (CSS) doc and customize our web page to give us the required display for a smart mirror.
This course involves the use of basic concepts from multiple programming languages. We will be using JavaScript to program the clock display. We will also be using PHP for the two RSS feeds - news and weather. Finally, we will put all this together in our HTML script and edit the presentation of our HTML document using a CSS file to make the display visible through a partially mirrored surface.
Setup their very own Raspberry Pi powered smart mirror
Write basic HTML and CSS code for a smart mirror web page hosted on an Apache 2 HTTP server
Write JavaScript code to create a digital clock element for aforementioned web page
Write PHP code to read and display RSS feeds
Setup Chromium browser on the Raspberry Pi to autostart on boot
You should know how to setup and work on a Raspberry Pi
You should understand basic Linux commands and utilities
Rudimentary knowledge of HTML and CSS is necessary to understand the project and to develop the project further
Elementary knowledge of JavaScript and PHP code is also necessary if you wish to understand and develop/modify the project
While this course does not teach or include any woodwork involved in completing the mirror, carpentry skills can be of use in crafting your mirror frame/cabinet
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Venkatesh Varadachari is the founder of MAKERDEMY, a pioneer maker education company head-quartered in Singapore.
Venkatesh believes that knowledge should be made available to people in all walks of life. Venkatesh also believes in the power of education to transform lives.
Venkatesh has an MBA from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
He also has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Madras University and a Masters in Financial Engineering from National University of Singapore.
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