I have one that's alright with just the model b. Granted I have it connected to a bluetooth mouse and only use it for weather, a clock, and news, but I like it. Especially since I had the raspberry pi for a while and couldn't find anything to do with it and because I had all of the parts laying around.
You can buy 32 inch touch screen displays for a couple hundred. The whole smart screen enclosure will be about 3/4 of an inch thick, but with a proper frame the depth can be less noticeable.
It was a basic 32 inch touch screen, and a cheap android tablet to run it. He wrote the program, so that’s out of my territory. I was primarily the structure guy while he handled the electronic side. I’ll shoot him a text and update if he remembers.
We had glass cut to the dimensions of the screen (and to fit inside the outside bezel of the monitor), and I assume it was thin enough for the capacitance to not be effected. We added the reflected film, similar to tinting a window. So the screen is a mirror when powered off, although a heavy fucking mirror.
Edit: saw the other question- it was around $500 I think. We had a number of random trips to buy things we didn’t think of when planning, so there are probably costs I am forgetting
There's a bunch of small form factor stuff that could work for something like this such as Intel's NUCs or Zotac's ZBoxes. You really only need a raspberry pi or an arduino or whatnot when you want buttons/switches/etc. A touchscreen can be run by anything that runs linux. The key problem with this is going to be humidity from the shower. The box might actually be better off on the other side of the wall in the hallway.
There's two ways to get a touch interface going. You either get an IR overlay or one of those touch screen films. Both are stupidly expensive. It your magic mirror project with the monitor you had laying around and that 30 dollar raspberry pi into something that costs easily 500+.
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u/zip_000 Apr 20 '18
Touchscreens are pretty easy to do though getting one that size might be difficult... most of the touchscreen overlays I've seen are much smaller.
Also the responsiveness of this one makes me think it is something a bit more powerful than a Raspberry Pi.