Date: 11/3/2020
So basically, this project has two sides to it. 1 software and 2 hardware. Im going to try to sort out the software first, so that it is all up and running before I spend hours building a frame for it!
Ive ordered a Raspi 3A+, which should give me enough RAM to play with without breaking the bank: £25 for a whole computer!
As it turns out the software is all based on a previously existing software kernel which I just edit to make my one. That software - MagicMirror - has a huge amount of documentation, help and tutorials to get me going fairly quickly!