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At last, my ARM (computer) is complete! Well that"s what I though initally. A year later and I realize who at complete pain in the butt this thing is.

Firstly, as many of you may have found out, the manufacture screwed up and designed this thing UP SIDE DOWN. Which on a small screen you have to adjust you screen to project the image 180 degrees, but when you put it back on the big screen you have to adjust back.

Secondly, access to the SD Card requires unscrewing the case off the back of the Pi. The alternative is to find a microSD card extension ribbon, which will set you back about $13 depending on what manufacture doesn"t make you wait a month for that part to get stateside from China.

Lastly, there are NO compatible screws for this thing. NONE. M3 is too big. M2.5 is too small. And no matter what you pick, the thread length is too deep, too shallow, or the threads themselves don"t fit well with the hole you are trying to screw them in. You also have the risk of screwing the screws too deep that they could damage the LCD display.

There"s are a lot of design flaws with this thing. It was still better than the cheap 3D printed ones which had the flimsy legs that broke like twigs, and that was the appeal to buying this one. It needs to be redesigned.

There"s just one problem. Where are the screws? They didn"t come with my 7" screen when I bought it. They didn"t come with this box. And the last stand I had did come with screws but they are too long.

Keep your RPi board and LCD safe with this freestanding and portable Raspberry Pi case from DesignSpark. Specially developed to take your Pi 7in. LCD touch screen plus your Pi board, you can use this handy little case for the Pi 2 Model B, Pi 3 Model B and Pi Model B+. The main enclosure consists of an RPi LCD touch screen and board casing complete with snap-together removable rear cover. Formed from tough, long-lasting ABS, cuts-outs let you access all the connections and USB ports with ease. With an eye to aesthetics, the enclosure also creates a stylish bezel around your Pi LCD display.

Make sure your kit is fully protected with a Raspberry Pi 4 display case. Designed to encase the whole screen, it wraps around your Raspberry Pi effortlessly, offering protection whether you’re traveling or setting up away from home. Making the whole unit completely portable, why not take a look at what makes the Pi 4 screen case a must-have item.

We love the latest Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, we know you love it too :) This is a nice yet practical enclosure/case for Raspberry Pi 4B board with the option to match the 3.5-inch TFT Touch Screen or to add a cooling fan.

From the outlook, it is a normal case for Raspberry Pi 4B; but if you look carefully, it features a few uniqueness:Allow access to all peripheral ports including HDMI, USB micro B for power, Audio & Video composite jack, 4 x USB ports, Ethernet, and the MicroSD card slot

If you remove the top cover and combine it with 3.5 inches TFT display, it becomes a nice console with a touch screen display and Raspberry Pi is enclosed underneath it.

Note: The enclosure can either be used with a 3.5-inch Touch Screen  TFT Display or with a cooling fan. It does not allow the use of both (display and cooling fan) at the same time.

If you just want a case for your Raspberry Pi 4B board, there is plenty of space to add heatsink on the CPU, RAM and USB controller or Ethernet Hub, you can do it! You can even add a cooling fan under the top case for active cooling! Heatsink and cooling fan, your RPi will never get hot!

We have done the stress test (Stressberry) on Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB board. The test is carried out to compare the temperature performance of the Raspberry Pi 4 with this light-weight case, Fan ON and Fan Off. This is just one of the many methods you can use to benchmark the thermal performance of the enclosure or heatsink. The test consists of two parts which are cooling and continue with the stress test. The stress test loads the CPU to 100% and logs the temperature. We have also updated the EEPROM firmware of Raspberry Pi 4 Model B to 000137ad (date: 10 Sep 2019), the thermal performance improved significantly:

As you can see from the chart, the cooling fan plays an important role in keeping the Raspberry Pi cool :) So make sure the fan is there and working if you like this enclosure/case.

Rather than plug your Raspberry Pi into a TV, or connect via SSH (or remote desktop connections via VNC or RDP), you might have opted to purchase a Raspberry Pi touchscreen display.

Straightforward to set up, the touchscreen display has so many possibilities. But if you"ve left yours gathering dust in a drawer, there"s no way you"re going to experience the full benefits of such a useful piece of kit.

The alternative is to get it out of the drawer, hook your touchscreen display to your Raspberry Pi, and reformat the microSD card. It"s time to work on a new project -- one of these ideas should pique your interest.

Let"s start with perhaps the most obvious option. The official Raspberry Pi touchscreen display is seven inches diagonal, making it an ideal size for a photo frame. For the best results, you"ll need a wireless connection (Ethernet cables look unsightly on a mantelpiece) as well as a Raspberry Pi-compatible battery pack.

Several options are available to create a Raspberry Pi photo frame, mostly using Python code. You might opt to script your own, pulling images from a pre-populated directory. Alternatively, take a look at our guide to making your own photo frame with beautiful images and inspiring quotes. It pulls content from two Reddit channels -- images from /r/EarthPorn and quotes from /r/ShowerThoughts -- and mixes them together.

Rather than wait for the 24th century, why not bring the slick user interface found in Star Trek: The Next Generation to your Raspberry Pi today? While you won"t be able to drive a dilithium crystal powered warp drive with it, you can certainly control your smart home.

In the example above, Belkin WeMo switches and a Nest thermostat are manipulated via the Raspberry Pi, touchscreen display, and the InControlHA system with Wemo and Nest plugins. ST:TNG magic comes from an implementation of the Library Computer Access and Retrieval System (LCARS) seen in 1980s/1990s Star Trek. Coder Toby Kurien has developed an LCARS user interface for the Pi that has uses beyond home automation.

Building a carputer has long been the holy grail of technology DIYers, and the Raspberry Pi makes it far more achievable than ever before. But for the carputer to really take shape, it needs a display -- and what better than a touchscreen interface?

Ideal for entertainment, as a satnav, monitoring your car"s performance via the OBD-II interface, and even for reverse parking, a carputer can considerably improve your driving experience. Often, though, the focus is on entertainment.

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Setting up a Raspberry Pi carputer also requires a user interface, suitable power supply, as well as working connections to any additional hardware you employ. (This might include a mobile dongle and GPS for satnav, for instance.)

Now here is a unique use for the Pi and its touchscreen display. A compact, bench-based tool for controlling hardware on your bench (or kitchen or desk), this is a build with several purposes. It"s designed to help you get your home automation projects off the ground, but also includes support for a webcam to help you record your progress.

The idea here is simple. With just a Raspberry Pi, a webcam, and a touchscreen display -- plus a thermal printer -- you can build a versatile photo booth!

Various projects of this kind have sprung up. While the versions displayed above uses a thermal printer outputting a low-res image, you might prefer to employ a standard color photo printer. The wait will be longer, but the results better!

Projects along these lines can also benefit from better use of the touchscreen. Perhaps you could improve on this, and introduce some interesting photo effects that can be tweaked via the touchscreen prior to printing?

How about a smart mirror for your Raspberry Pi touchscreen display project? This is basically a mirror that not only shows your reflection, but also useful information. For instance, latest news and weather updates.

Naturally, a larger display would deliver the best results, but if you"re looking to get started with a smart mirror project, or develop your own from scratch, a Raspberry Pi combined with a touchscreen display is an excellent place to start.

Many existing projects are underway, and we took the time to compile six of them into a single list for your perusal. Use this as inspiration, a starting point, or just use someone else"s code to build your own information-serving smart mirror.

Want to pump some banging "toons" out of your Raspberry Pi? We"ve looked at some internet radio projects in the past, but adding in a touchscreen display changes things considerably. For a start, it"s a lot easier to find the station you want to listen to!

This example uses a much smaller Adafruit touchscreen display for the Raspberry Pi. You can get suitable results from any compatible touchscreen, however.

Alternatively, you might prefer the option to integrate your Raspberry Pi with your home audio setup. The build outlined below uses RuneAudio, a Bluetooth speaker, and your preferred audio HAT or shield.

Requiring the ProtoCentral HealthyPi HAT (a HAT is an expansion board for the Raspberry Pi) and the Windows-only Atmel software, this project results in a portable device to measure yours (or a patient"s) health.

With probes and electrodes attached, you"ll be able to observe and record thanks to visualization software on the Pi. Whether this is a system that can be adopted by the medical profession remains to be seen. We suspect it could turn out to be very useful in developing nations, or in the heart of infectious outbreaks.

We were impressed by this project over at Hackster.io, but note that there are many alternatives. Often these rely on compact LCD displays rather than the touchscreen solution.

Many home automation systems have been developed for, or ported to, the Raspberry Pi -- enough for their own list. Not all of these feature a touchscreen display, however.

One that does is the Makezine project below, that hooks up a Raspberry Pi running OpenHAB, an open source home automation system that can interface with hundreds of smart home products. Our own guide shows how you can use it to control some smart lighting. OpenHAB comes with several user interfaces. However, if they"re not your cup of tea, an LCARS UI theme is available.

Another great build, and the one we"re finishing on, is a Raspberry Pi-powered tablet computer. The idea is simple: place the Pi, the touchscreen display, and a rechargeable battery pack into a suitable case (more than likely 3D printed). You might opt to change the operating system; Raspbian Jessie with PIXEL (nor the previous desktop) isn"t really suitable as a touch-friendly interface. Happily, there are versions of Android available for the Raspberry Pi.

This is one of those projects where the electronics and the UI are straightforward. It"s really the case that can pose problems, if you don"t own a 3D printer.

The unnamed screen-case for the Raspberry Pi 2 and 3 is available on Banggood for $15.99, which includes the case, the touchscreen, and a stylus. The resistive 3.5-inch LCD touchscreen fits inside the top part of the case.

The touchscreen is fairly basic with a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels, and is suggested for use as an alternative to an attached monitor. The case also has two holes on the back so that it can be hung from a wall, as well as vents to support an attached cooling fan.

But it"s not possible to use the touchscreen and a cooling fan at the same time, so you"ll need to choose one or the other. The case has openings for all the Raspberry Pi ports, including power, SD Card, ethernet, USB and so on.

As noted on the Scargill gadget blog, the combination is nifty as the case acts as the screen"s bezel, which aren"t always easy to find. Also, the screen is useful as a graphical interface but not so much as a command-line interface.

A range of touchscreens are available for the Pi, including the official Raspberry Pi touchscreen, which recently gained support in the mainline Linux kernel.

While the touchscreen was released several years ago, support was previously provided either by customized kernels for the Pi"s official Raspbian OS or by custom kernel patching.

I have just set up my first official display and am using the case from PiHut https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry ... creen-case. I have now noticed that the screen is upside down and have read up on the reasons behind this.

My question is, can anyone recommend a good case that offers options for wall mounting and desktop standing which mount the screen in the new correct orientation to allow me the best viewing angle options?

I have just set up my first official display and am using the case from PiHut https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry ... creen-case. I have now noticed that the screen is upside down and have read up on the reasons behind this.

My question is, can anyone recommend a good case that offers options for wall mounting and desktop standing which mount the screen in the new correct orientation to allow me the best viewing angle options?

Scroll down to the section "LCD display/touchscreen options" for the lcd-rotate for values to rotate the image 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Note this setting does not affect the HDMI or composite video outputs. Also only one video output can work at any time.

Scroll down to the section "LCD display/touchscreen options" for the lcd-rotate for values to rotate the image 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Note this setting does not affect the HDMI or composite video outputs. Also only one video output can work at any time.

If you do that, flipping the display 180 degrees, you compromise / effect the viewing angle of the display. Thats doable but not all that desirable for some setups. As far as I know the viewing angle is optimised for the display being right side up.

Scroll down to the section "LCD display/touchscreen options" for the lcd-rotate for values to rotate the image 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Note this setting does not affect the HDMI or composite video outputs. Also only one video output can work at any time.

If you do that, flipping the display 180 degrees, you compromise / effect the viewing angle of the display. Thats doable but not all that desirable for some setups. As far as I know the viewing angle is optimised for the display being right side up.

alphanumeric Everything I"ve read agrees with what you said. So which way is up? Does this drawing show the correct orientation? https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentati ... 092015.pdf where it says "VIEWING ORIENTATION" with the arrow pointing up thus the flex ribbon cable comes off in a downward direction?

I designed a custom case for the display for a project relying on that drawing and now I"m I"m seeing cases designed with the ribbon cable coming off the top indicating the display is rotated 180 degrees. And if I can believe the documentation that then makes the optimal viewing angle from below and not above.

I"ve also seen reports that "lcd_rotate=2" does not work, granted the posts were old, but that then would be a problem if the drawing"s documented "VIEWING ORIENTATION" for optimal viewing angle being from above did make the display upside down.

I"ve also seen old posts where a firmware change made the default orientation flip 180 degrees and some cited that was done because manufacturers made the cases wrong.

My current setup has the display ribbon cable at the bottom. Also the Micro USB power jack on the display board and Raspberry Pi are pointing down. I don"t have to rotate the display on a stock Raspbian install. There was a time early on where the display would start out one way and then flip after you did an update upgarde to Raspbian. Around when the screen was first released.

My current setup has the display ribbon cable at the bottom. Also the Micro USB power jack on the display board and Raspberry Pi are pointing down. I don"t have to rotate the display on a stock Raspbian install. There was a time early on where the display would start out one way and then flip after you did an update upgarde to Raspbian. Around when the screen was first released.

I wrote the Raspberry Pi Organization at the same time I posted my question here asking which way is up for the display in order to keep the optimum viewing angle from above and just received an answer from them.

As their mechanical drawing for the display shows, "Up" is and I quote, "with the LCD flex coming out the bottom of the screen". So I designed my display housing correctly.

I just setup a new Pi 4B with the official 7 inch touch screen in the new SmartiPi V2 case. Display ribbon cable is on the bottom. Just a FYI post. It"s a nice quality case, the assembly instructions leave something to be desired though.

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Both the display driver board and the Pi need power- you can bridge them using the red and black jump wires supplied from the 5v and GND on the display driver board to the 5V and GND on the Pi ( find them here: http://pi.gadgetoid.com/pinout ) then plug the power into the display board.

If your touchscreen or display doesn’t work, triple check the FPC connectors - I’ve tested a lot of “not working” LCDs to find them working perfectly. In all cases the cables should be pushed in firmly and the clips secured fully- the larger FPC for the display ribbon takes quite a bit of force. I’ve posted a guide to the FPC connectors here: http://forums.pimoroni.com/t/raspberry-pi-official-7-touchscreen-assembly/1132

If you’ve got any reservations about connecting wires to your Pi’s GPIO, I recommend our split dial microB USB power cable: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/split-microb-usb-power-cable

Make sure you update your Pi first, you’ll need the latest software and the Raspbian OS in order to drive the screen. A full reinstall of Raspbian Jessie works best, you can find it here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

Follow the linked Installation Guide, and make sure you go into Menu -> Preferences -> Raspberry Pi Configuration and expand your filesystem when you first boot up your Pi.

If you don’t want to reinstall and want to make sure you’re using the latest stable firmware, make sure you have a network connection and type this into Terminal:

There’s no better place to learn everything you might need to know about the screen than the Raspberry Pi blog post which you can find here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-eagerly-awaited-raspberry-pi-display/

The touchscreen works over the DSI connector, so no extra connections are needed. It’s connected to the driver board via the smaller ribbon cable- don’t forget it!

It’s capacitive touch- it senses your finger, but not pointy objects like a resitive screen. It works with stylii (styluses?) like the ones you might use with your iPad

This is unfortunately a side-effect of many developers assuming a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels. You can usually reveal hidden buttons and fields by;

Yes and no. As explained in the official Pi blog on the subject, only applications which know how to output over HDMI can be used. An example is given for OMXPlayer: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-eagerly-awaited-raspberry-pi-display/

Please note, you may need to increase the amount of memory allocated to the GPU to 128MB if the videos are 1080P, adjust the gpu_mem value in config.txt for this. The Raspberry Pi headline figures are 1080P30 decode, so if you are using two 1080P clips it may not play correctly depending on the complexity of the videos.

Currently you can’t run a dual display X desktop, and we don’t know when or if this will be possible. If you know how to make it happen, you can chime in on this thread: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=120541

Note: An update has been pushed to Raspbian to flip the screen ( rotate it by 180 degrees ) for a better desktop viewing angle. This makes it upside-down in our stand and the official Pi stand, so you’ll need to change a setting to flip it back.

With the software updated it’s actually reasonably straight-forward to get the touchscreen working with a Model A or B Raspberry Pi. First you must make two additional connections between your Pi’s GPIO and the touchscreen: these are the SDA ( http://pinout.xyz/pinout/pin3_gpio2 ) and SCL ( http://pinout.xyz/pinout/pin5_gpio3 ) lines ( which you can connect using the supplied green and yellow wires ).

Note: This will give your i2c over to the Pi for running the LCD/Touchscreen and you wont be able to use any other i2c devices or add-on boards which require i2c.

We’ve decided to keep the current design and orientation because it’s the best out of the two and the 10 degree difference in viewing angle is very slight. ( I use these screens every day ).

If you absolutely need an extra 10 degrees of vertical viewing you can fit a Pibow Coupe to the back of the LCD screen and remove the legs. This lets it rest slightly further back while still remaining stable enough for everyday use. It also fits pretty neatly into a bag, too.

If you get a white screen, it probably means the screen’s ribbon cable isn’t seated properly. Make sure it’s pushed firmly into place and that the connector is closed properly.

If you get a black screen, it likely means your DSI cable ( the one between the Pi and the driver board ) isn’t seated correctly or is… backwards ( I’m not even sure this is a real thing! ). We’ve had some success reversing the cable in this case- switching which end plugs into which part.

Be extremely careful when re-seating any ribbon cables, the retaining clips can be fragile. If you have a pre-assembled screen then the main ribbon cable is probably fine.

I’ve tried a number of USB cables from the USB port on the LCD driver board to the power input of my Pi and have invariably seen the little rainbow square indicating undervoltage in the top right hand corner of the LCD. (Note: This has seen been updated to a lightning bolt indicating the same)

I have put together a prototype split cable, and we’re looking into sourcing microUSB cable splitters to use in conjunction with the official Pi power supply as the most reliable solution.

Chris_c on the official Pi forums has discovered how to enable right-click with a simple configuration change. This allows you to press and hold on the touchscreen to trigger a right click.

As Clive demonstrates below, you can make a much more compact setup by flipping your Pi and mounting it with the ports facing towards the back of the LCD.

A standard GPIO ribbon cable will not fit between the two metal risers, so it’s impossible to route a Black HAT Hack3r or Cobbler out from the display in this position, but there might be cables out there that fit.

Gasp! Okay, I can see why you’d want to do this! I couldn’t put it better than the great step-by-step forum post here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=108&t=120793

You can find a technical drawing with dimensions of the display and mount hole locations here: https://github.com/raspberrypi/documentation/tree/master/hardware/display

Make sure you mount your screen by screwing, gently, into the mounting holes either side of the metal frame, or for the driver board. Don’t attempt to mount the screen by the glass front. The tape bonding the glass to the rest of the screen isn’t designed to carry the weight of the screen, your Pi and whatever else might be connected.

The Compute Module IO board (for CM and CM3) includes a connector for the screen, see: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/computemodule/cmio-display.md

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Adding a small LCD touchscreen to Raspberry Pi seems like a terrific idea (see the "Choosing a Touchscreen" box) – until you realize that the default desktop environment is not optimized for tiny displays. The tendency of programmers to design for an old-style computer desktop means launching applications and performing actions on a tiny touchscreen is often fiddly at best. In most cases, though, you might just be using the touchscreen for a few specific tasks, and building your own graphical interface might seem like too much trouble.

Several LCD touchscreens for Raspberry Pi are available on the market. The PiTFT 2.8-inch 320x240 panel from Adafruit [3] is available through several web stores. You can also buy a stylish PiTFT Pibow case [4] for it. You"ll find a wealth of documentation on installing and using PiTFT on Adafruit"s website [5]. RPI-Display from Watterott [6] is another good option – especially if you are based in Europe. Watterott also sells an enclosure for the Raspberry Pi and RPI-Display combo [7], and all the required software (including an SD card image) is available in the RPi-Display GitHub repository [8]. It"s also possible to find a decent touchscreen for Raspberry Pi on eBay, but make sure it comes with the required software.

Enter PiMenu [1] – a simple solution written in Python and TkInter that lets you build tile-based graphical interfaces with consummate ease. PiMenu was originally designed by Andreas Gohr of DokuWiki fame for his paper backup project [2]. Thanks to its simplicity and versatility, however, PiMenu can be easily adapted for any other project requiring a simple graphical interface.

command to make PiMenu work on Raspberry Pi. Then, grab the latest release of PiMenu as a ZIP archive from the project"s GitHub repository, or clone the repository using

PiMenu consists of three key parts: the pimenu.py Python script that draws the GUI, the pimenu.yaml configuration file that defines menu items, and the pimenu.sh Bash shell script that performs actions based on arguments received from pimenu.py.

For each menu item specified in the pimenu.yaml configuration file, PiMenu draws a tile, and the main script automatically resizes tiles to fit them in the window. The tiled interface is inspired by the Windows 8 design, which actually works pretty well on Raspberry Pi. In the pimenu.yaml file, you can specify a hierarchy of menu items, so you can create a rather elaborate menu structure.

I don"t travel as much as I would like to, but when I do, I take a lot of photos. And I always wanted to build a Raspberry Pi-based backup device to keep my precious snapshots safe while I"m traveling. PiMenu was the missing piece required to bring this idea to fruition. Ideally, the Raspberry Pi-based backup box should perform several tasks, such as transferring photos directly from a camera or a card reader and backing up the transferred photos to a USB storage device.

The first order of business is to edit the pimenu.yaml file to include the required menu items (Listing 1). Each menu item in the configuration file has four properties: mandatory name and label as well as optional color and icon. The icon refers to the name of the appropriate icon in the GIF format stored in the ico directory (e.g., icon: "menu" points to the ico/menu.gif graphics file).

The additional items property can be used to specify sub-items. In this case, the Menu item contains three sub-items: Camera, USB, and Backup. Note that the menu items and sub-items must be indented properly using spaces (not tabs) and separated with the "-" separator.

The pimenu.py Python script not only draws the interface using the configuration from the pimenu.yaml file, but it also reads the names of the menu tiles when pressed and executes the pimenu.sh Bash shell script. This is where all the action happens. You can configure the script to perform actions based on the name of the pressed tile. One way is to configure the script to read the name of the pressed tile and then use a case conditional statement to perform the desired actions.

To obtain the name of the pressed tile, you can use the echo "$*" command. However, this command returns the names of all menu items if the pressed tile resides somewhere down the menu hierarchy. For example, if you press the Backup tile, the returned result will be Menu Backup. Because pimenu.sh needs only the name of the pressed tile, you can use the awk tool to extract it from the result returned by the echo "$*" command and assign the obtained value to the key variable:

This variable can then be used in the case statement as shown in Listing 2. I"ll take a closer look at what each part of the case statement actually does.

This ensures that no ghoto2 processes keep the connected camera busy, thus preventing the transfer of photos from it. To keep things tidy, the script transfers all photos into the separate ~/PHOTOS directory, and the if conditional statement creates the directory if it doesn"t already exist. Finally,

to obtain the mountpoint of the USB device. It does so by using the find tool, which looks for non-empty folders in the media directory. The sed tool in turn applies proper escaping if the obtained path contains white spaces (e.g., /media/NIKON D90/DCIM/100NCD90/ becomes /media/NIKON\ D90/DCIM/100NCD90/). This command assumes that there is only one USB storage device or card reader connected to Raspberry Pi at the time.

To back up the transferred photos to an external storage device connected to the USB port of Raspberry Pi, the script features two commands: The first one obtains the mountpoint of the USB device, and the second command uses the rsync tool to copy the photos.

Tapping on the tile with no sub-tiles returns an empty result, so the final part of the case statement closes PiMenu by killing all running pimenu processes if the $key value is empty – that is, the "") condition.

With PiMenu configured and ready to go, you have only two things left to do: Install the required packages and provide a way to launch PiMenu without using the keyboard. To install the packages, run the following commands:

With minimal tweaking, you can improve the described project and put it to other uses. For example, you can easily extend PiMenu"s configuration to include cloud backup (e.g., using rsync via SSH), preview photos downloaded from the camera or a card reader, and much more. You can easily modify the project to use Raspberry Pi as a backup device not only for photos but also for files and documents in general.

You can also adapt PiMenu to entirely different uses altogether. For example, you can turn your Raspberry Pi into an Internet radio device that lets you choose stations via the touch-screen menu, or you can build a simple launcher that opens specific applications. In other words, if you have a Raspberry Pi with an LCD touchscreen, PiMenu can prove to be an indispensable ingredient for making the combo useful.

Display with 13.3 "IPS LCD touch screen for Raspberry Pi computers The display has an HDMI interface for image display and USB for a touch screen, the screen has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels, has a touch panel (10 points). (available in many languages, allows you to set power management, brightness / contrast, etc.). Has mounting holes that allow mounting on wall brackets (VESA 75x75).