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It is the cutest display for the Raspberry Pi. It features a 3.5" display with 480x320 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay. It"s designed to fit nicely not only to the Pi Model A or B but also works perfectly fine with the Model B+/2B/3B/4B.

This LCD Touchscreen HAT fits snuggly on top of the Raspberry Pi, practically form fitting on top of it so as not to compromise the overall dimensions of the credit card sized single board computer. The resistive touchscreen provides you with an easy way to display information coming off of the Raspberry Pi and the OS currently running on it.

The 800 x 480 display connects to Raspberry Pi via an adapter board that handles power and signal conversion. Only two connections to your Raspberry Pi are required: power from the GPIO port, and a ribbon cable that connects to the DSI port on all Raspberry Pi computers except for the Raspberry Pi Zero line.

After execution, the driver will be installed. The system will automatically restart, and the display screen will rotate 90 degrees to display and touch normally.

Headless servers and control systems do not actually need a display screen. Sometimes, however, you might want to take a quick look at the current status or do a clean shutdown. These tasks can be performed remotely via SSH or a smartphone app, but they are easier to accomplish when a touchscreen has been connected. Likewise, other operations can benefit from real-life controls and the direct reporting of activities to the user.

A broad offering of touchscreens has become available for the Rasp Pi even for users who know nothing about soldering. For those who prefer a larger screen for something like a small jukebox, there is a 7-inch screen or larger. However, these screens usually need an additional board and their own power supply. Therefore, in this article, I focus on two smaller thin-film transistor (TFT) screens with a 2.8-inch format.

The Munich startup Pi3g [1] made just such a display screen available to us for testing. (See also the interview with Pi3g founder Maximilian Batz accompanying this article.) Pi3g offers the screen for US$ 70.68 (EUR 52) on its website. The second display screen comes from Watterott [2] and costs EUR 30.

Both screens have resistive displays that react to pressure instead of touch. This means that neither offers the comfort of modern smartphones, nor does either support multitouch. The resolution for each amounts to 320x240 pixels. When observed closely, the screen looks somewhat pixelated.

Both the Pi3g display and the Watterott display use a special framebuffer driver. The images provided include the applicable configuration together with the driver. The framebuffer of the display screen corresponds to the /dev/fb1 device. The first display device, /dev/fb0, operates the HDMI output that profits from the hardware acceleration of the GPU.

The mapping for fb1 to the first console (tty1) and from fb0 to the second (tty2) is achieved using the command-line parameters fbcon:map=10 from the cmdline.txt file. All consoles use the small display screen with fbcon:map=1. Only the first console displays boot messages.

The fbcp tool copies the content of /dev/fb0 every 25ms to /dev/fb1. This makes a fluid replay of video possible on the TFT screen using the standard Raspbian video player:

It is not possible to measure any additional power consumed by the display screen using simple measuring devices from a DIY store. However, usage can exceed the supply offered by a wobbly connection. A live view from something like a connected camera does not work because the rendering is transmitted via a CPU. At 10 percent, the amount of CPU used for driving the display screen is reasonable, and this also applies to the Watterott screen.

The Pi3g display appears a bit faster than the competition; however, this may result from serial scatter or perhaps a less than optimal configuration. This difference was only noticeable when playing videos in the absence of hardware acceleration. Note that the main task of the CPU is to reduce the video to a smaller format rather than display the results.

The TFT display screen can be connected via a short flat ribbon cable, which allows the hobbyist to mount the screen perpendicular to the computer. The cable is not a problem unless the user is seeking to achieve an especially compact setup. You can also swap out the cable without much problem.

The Watterott online shop primarily targets electronics hobbyists. Along with the Raspberry Pi and peripheral equipment, the shop offers single-drive computers. Surprisingly, a display screen that preceded the current 2.8-inch model is still available for purchase, and the shop offers larger screens as well.

Delivery from the shop was prompt (Figure 2). Unlike the Pi3G model, the Watterott screen does not need a cable. You simply plug it directly into the pin strip of the Raspberry Pi. The advantage here is that the Rasp Pi and the screen form a single unit that can be fitted with a housing – also available for purchase. The disadvantage is that you have less leeway in the assembly. First you will need to mount a Pi cam and then bend the cable with a sharp crease because the display screen covers up the camera connection.

The two displays differ in only very small ways in terms of technology. The Pi3g model uses a ILI9325 chipset with an ADS7843 touch controller. The Watterott model uses a ILI9341 chipset with an identical controller; however, the company could change feature details in the next round of production.

I recently found a discount code through SlickDeals for $10 off the Elecrow 5" HDMI Touchscreen display for the Raspberry Pi. Since the Raspberry Pi was introduced, I"ve wanted to try out one of these mini screens (touchscreen or no), but they"ve always been prohibitively expensive (usually $60+).

The display is pretty solid, and comes well packed in styrofoam with four standoffs for mounting, a cheap plastic stylus, and a male-to-male HDMI daughter-card. Getting the Pi onto the board is easy enough; I used one standoff through one of the Pi"s mounting holes (on the side with the HDMI plug), then seated the Pi directly on top of the GPIO slot on the display board, so so the HDMI ports would line up perfectly on the other side.

The Elecrow officially supports the Raspberry Pi 3 model B, but I tested it with a 2 model B as well. I didn"t try it with a B+, but the hardware layout should work, so at least the HDMI display would work correctly (not sure about the touchscreen controls). The way the hardware is laid out, you seat the Raspberry Pi directly onto a GPIO socket (it takes up the first 13 sets of GPIO pins—pins 1-26), and then there"s an included HDMI male-to-male daughtercard that slots in nicely to connect the HDMI output of the Pi to the HDMI input on the display.

There"s an extra OTG USB plug on the display if you want to give it a separate power source, but if you plug it straight into the Pi"s GPIO, it will leech off the 5V connection. As long as you have a good 2A power supply for your Pi, though, you shouldn"t have to worry about supplying independent power to the display. In my usage, I only saw the overvolt indicator every now and then (just like I do in normal usage of the Pi 3, since it uses a bit more power than a 2!).

When I first booted the Pi attached to the display, there was a large white area on the right, and only the left portion of the screen was being used by the Pi (it was only using 640x480 of the 800x480 display). To fix this, you have to set a few display options in the configuration file the Raspberry Pi reads during startup to switch certain hardware settings.

Besides being a 800x480 HDMI display, the Elecrow also has a touchscreen overlay that allows simple one-point resistive touch detection on the screen. Note that at best, resistive touch is not nearly as responsive and intuitive as capacitive touch detection, which you"re likely used to on any recent smartphone or tablet screen. But something is better than nothing, when it comes to building simple UIs for "Internet of Things" devices or other fun things.

I tried to find some kind of downloadable driver for the XPT2046 touch controller, but didn"t find a lot of helpful information. Elecrow"s Wiki has some helpful information, a link to a setup PDF, a link to some configuration examples... but some of this seemed to be formatted incorrectly (likely due to bad copy/pasting or PDF formatting), so ignore that info and use this process instead (all commands run from the Terminal app):

For ~$30 ($40 without discount), I wasn"t expecting a mind-blowing retina display with excellent glare-reducing coatings and contrast. But I do expect no dead pixels, and at least a crisp, vibrant picture when looking straight on. This screen is "good enough" in that regard, though viewing angles aren"t too great; side to side is okay, but looking down from above or up from below results in a bit of a washed out picture. Also, there is no antireflective coating on the screen, so wherever you use it, you need to be aware of nearby light sources.

So, to summarize the review: this is everything I expected out of a sub-$50 display. It"s nothing like a high-end smartphone display with capacitive touch, so if that"s what you"re expecting, you"ll have to look elsewhere. But if you just want a small display that mounts to the Pi easily and is more affordable than the Raspberry Pi Foundation"s own 7" touchscreen, this is a great buy!

※Price Increase NotificationThe TFT glass cell makers such as Tianma,Hanstar,BOE,Innolux has reduced or stopped the production of small and medium-sized tft glass cell from August-2020 due to the low profit and focus on the size of LCD TV,Tablet PC and Smart Phone .It results the glass cell price in the market is extremely high,and the same situation happens in IC industry.We deeply regret that rapidly rising costs for glass cell and controller IC necessitate our raising the price of tft display.We have made every attempt to avoid the increase, we could accept no profit from the beginning,but the price is going up frequently ,we"re now losing a lot of money. We have no choice if we want to survive. There is no certain answer for when the price would go back to the normal.We guess it will take at least 6 months until these glass cell and semiconductor manufacturing companies recover the production schedule. (Mar-03-2021)

ER-TFTV043A3-3 is 480x272 pixel 4.3 inch color tft lcd display for the Raspberry Pi with optional USB port resistive or capacitive touch panel screen,optional USB cable and HDMI cable. Of course ,it is not limited to the Raspberry Pi ,it can be used for all the universal HDMI port hardwares such as mini PCs, Raspberry Pi, BB Black, Banana Pi, as well as general desktop computers.

To do this, download the zip file with manuals under the tab "Downloads". Extract the zip file and open the pdf file "How to calibrate the touch screen (En) .pdf".