For my Third milestone,  I decided to complete my project with the hardware portion, or the completion of the frame. I had decided to use a monitor from home because I wanted a sleek design instead of a bulky design with my mirror. I have the control panel for my monitor under the cardboard and I will be resting my google nest mini ontop of the cardboard on the front. I made the frame/case out of a Nintendo XL ds case and an airpods case for support. I have also cut out a small peice in the front for the buttons on the control panel that control the brightness, the volume, and the input. I had origionally made the monitor by stripping an old computor and buying a control panel from ebay. My final projuct turned out really well and effecient. the screen behind it is much more prominent then it is in the photos , but it does show up quite clearly in real life. I think that the most challenging part of my project was when I didn’t back up my code files of my config.js and all of my code was lost and sent back to the original format. I had to recode all of my Config.js file back to how it was, and I overcame it by backing up all of all of my progress onto separate files during each big moment of my project, an example being my second milestone, which was the completion of my software/display.

My second milestone consisted of finalizing my moduels for my smart mirror and completing all of my API’s. This means that when I run my smart mirror program, everything software wise will be completed. The differnet moduels that I put on my smart mirror are, A spotify API, a current weather and forcasting API, a youtube/casting API, a New York Times news API, and A calender API. Each of these different API’s are custom to me in some way, for example the calendar API has a private URL link to my google calendar and anything that is added to my google caledar will be remotly added to my smart mirror. The Spotify API shows the album cover of a song, the Song name, artist, and album, and the time into the song that is playing. The New York Times news API shows a headline of some New York Times articles. I used the text editor in the file Config.js to change and edit the moduels. For my youtube/casting API, I can cast videos through my phone onto my smart mirror. I also added a Google Nest Mini to my smart mirro so that I can ask google to play music and the Spoitfy API can show the music that is playing, and the same effect with the youtube/casting API. I can ask google to stop casting, or to even cast a video to my rasberry PI through my iphone. I would like to attach my google Nest Mini to my fram in some way so that they culd work together. I would also like to add a speaker to my monitor so that when the youtube videos play from the youtube API the videos can sound better. My next milestone will be completely hardware based. It will include the frame and other hardware accessories.