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The UCTRONICS 3.5 Inch touch screen is the same size as the standard Raspberry Pi model B/B+, and well-mates with the Raspberry Pi boards. With a tiny size, vivid image, and responsive touchscreen, it is definitely ideal for portable devices and multimedia projects. It is a great replacement for a heavy and bulky HDMI monitor, keyboard, and mouse

Step1: Align the pin 1 of the edge connector between the LCD display and Raspberry pi board, connect the pin 1,2,3,4 then pin 19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26.

Attention: If you want to use the touch function, you need to download and install the driver manually refers to the instructions we provided. The driver includes the settings of the Raspbian OS resolution and touch screen support.

Attention: If you use this display without a Pi, the touch function is not available because the touch function of this display just supports the Raspbian system. Meanwhile, an extra HDMI cable also is required for the video transmission.

In order to meet the increasing need of compact HDMI displays, especially for some popular single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi, the UCTRONICS team now releases a 7-inch HDMI LCD display with capacitive multi-touch touchscreen.

In order to meet the increasing need of compact HDMI displays, especially for some popular single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi, the UCTRONICS team now releases a 5-inch HDMI LCD display with capacitive multi-touch touchscreen

Visibility is... rough. The panel used appears to have originally been designed for a vertically oriented use, but it"s a TN display. The net result is that half the screen is brighter than the other when viewed dead-on from the center. Viewing angle is extremely biased towards one side of the screen.

There"s a tad bit of overscan on the side with the fatter border (I"m driving the screen at 800x600 at the moment), so adjust your Pi"s config to suit.

Also, seriously, don"t drive this higher than 800x600 if your use case lets you control the input resolution The screen is way too small and way too low resolution (480x320!) to be useful beyond that. UI elements and text are baaaaaarely usable at 800x600.

Overall, it"s easy, reasonably well designed, and the worst issues of the lot are the rather awkward viewing angles and the screen tearing.. It"s not very expensive, takes HDMI, and fits perfectly (like, it"s actually perfect) onto a Pi 2 or 3.

In the previous article, I described the steps needed to install an LCD touchscreen on the Raspberry Pi. In this article, I will show you how to adjust the screen rotation of the LCD to landscape mode, and will show you how to calibrate the touchscreen pointer for optimal accuracy. Just follow the steps below to compete the process of setting up your Raspberry Pi LCD touchscreen:

1. First we need to change the setting for screen rotation in the /boot/cmdline.txt file. This setting is called fbtft_device.rotate=X. By default, this is set to X=0, which results in a portrait mode screen orientation. In order to switch the orientation to landscape mode, change fbtft_device.rotate=0 to fbtft_device.rotate=90. Enter sudo nano /boot/cmdline.txt at the command prompt. There should only be one line in this file. Go to the end of it and you will find the fbtft_device.rotate=X setting. Change the value from 0 to 90:

However, if you try to touch the screen now, you will find that the pointer movement does not correspond to your finger movement. This is because the LCD screen driver and the touchscreen controller driver have separate settings for screen rotation. We need to change the rotation of the touchscreen controller driver to match the rotation of the LCD screen driver.

2. You probably noticed that dragging your finger to the right moves the pointer up, not to the right. This indicates that the x and y axes of the touchscreen are swapped. To correct this, we need to swap the x axis for the y axis. This can be done by changing the swap_xy=X parameter in /etc/modules.

Now if you drag your finger around the screen, you will notice that the y axis (up and down) is correctly aligned with the motion of your finger. However, the x axis (left and right) is still inverted. To fix this, we need to install two more kernel modules, xinput and evtest. xinput is a Linux utility that will allow us to configure input device settings for the touchscreen controller, and evtest is an input device event monitor and query tool.

After the Pi finishes rebooting, you should notice that when you move your finger across the touch screen, the pointer should follow correctly in both axes. If you are using the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, you will need to complete the calibration steps below before the pointer follows your finger correctly (and make sure that you have enabled startx to load automatically – see step 6 in this article).

You can rotate the screen 90 degrees (as we did in this tutorial) and the power connector will be at the bottom of the screen, but you can also rotate it 270 degrees so that the power connector is at the top of the screen. To do this, simply enter fbtft_device.rotate=270 in the /boot/cmdline.txt file. Then change the DISPLAY=:0 xinput --set-prop "ADS7846 Touchscreen" "Evdev Axis Inversion" 0 1 line in the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file to DISPLAY=:0 xinput --set-prop "ADS7846 Touchscreen" "Evdev Axis Inversion" 1 0. All you need to do is switch the values of the 0 and 1 at the end of this line.

Now that we have our LCD touchscreen up and running, the final step in the installation is the calibration of touch control. This will make the pointer much more accurate and easier to use.

2. Now we need to install the calibration tool we will be using, xinput_calibrator; and other filters for controlling the touchscreen response. Install the tslib library by entering aptitude install libts-bin:

4. Now we can use ts_calibrate. Enter ts_calibrate at the command prompt (make sure you are still in root mode) to run the ts_calibrate program. The program will consecutively display five crosses on different parts of the screen, which you need to touch with as much precision as possible:

Drag the cross around the screen and observe how closely it follows your finger or stylus to test the accuracy of the calibration. Now press the “Draw” button to enter the drawing mode:

This is kind of a long process, but it is well worth it if you want to get the LCD touchscreen set up properly. So if you have any trouble setting this up or have anything to say, please leave a comment below. Also, if you found this article useful, please share it with your friends!

The 3.5 inch touch screen is the same size as the standard Raspberry Pi model B/B+, and well mates with the Raspberry Pi boards. With its touch screen and split audio from the HDMI input, it is ideal for portable devices and multimedia projects, and it is a replacement for a heavy and bulky HDMI monitor, keyboard and mice.

The on-board button near the micro USB connector can be used to turn the backlight on and off. Screen rotation is not supported  for this specific item.

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Wide Compatibility: The case is designed to perfectly house Raspberry Pi 4 B, 3 B/B+ with a small touch screen. NOTE: Raspberry Pi motherboards are not included.

Features: 480 x 320 display resolution (HDMI input resolution supports 480*320 to 1920*1280); Refreshes up to 30 frames per second; 3.5mm audio/headphone jack; The backlight can be adjusted and turned on/off.

Plug & Play: Don"t need to reboot the Pi when connected, it doesn"t require any external power supply, and it displays with no need for the driver. Please note the touch function needs to install the driver.

Lightweight and Portable: the overall dimension of this tiny screen with enclosure is 3.66" ×2.48" ×1.18", and the delicate design and mini stylus make this kit completed and convenient to use.

If you want to use the touch function, you need to download and install the driver manually refers to the instructions we provided. The driver includes the settings of the Raspbian OS resolution and touch screen support.

ER-TFTV070A1-6 is 1024x600 dots 7" color tft lcd module display with small HDMI signal driver board and superior display quality,super wide view angle. It"s optional for optional 4-wire resistive touch panel with USB driver board and cable, optional capacitive touch panel with USB controller board and cable, optional remote control,It can be used in any embedded systems,car,industrial device,security and hand-held equipment which requires display in high quality and colorful video.It"s also ideal for Raspberry PI by HDMI.