The good news is that once you get past the difficulty of assembling the mirror, MagPi has made it so you can install all the software you need to actually run this on a Raspberry Pi with a single ...

A Raspberry Pi doesn't have built in memory, so you're going to have to fix that if you're making a smart mirror. The software you're loading onto it has to live somewhere.

NOOBS is the built-in operating system installer for Raspberry Pi. But if you already know which operating system you want to use, there's a quicker way to get your Pi up and running.

Behind Microsoft's magic mirror: Raspberry Pi, AI, Windows IoT plus Azure Microsoft lifts the lid on the tech that allows its magic mirror to identify you and display pertinent information.

3. Preparing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Next, disable the 'process of booting the OS from eMMC flash memory' so that you can write the OS to the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5.

After a few seconds, Dataplicity will download and install software on your Raspberry Pi that links it directly with your account. Once that’s complete, head to the Dataplicity device page.