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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.

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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?

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Raspberry Pi OS provides touchscreen drivers with support for ten-finger touch and an on-screen keyboard, giving you full functionality without the need to connect a keyboard or mouse.

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.

A detected touchscreen will also cause the fbheight and fbwidth parameters in /proc/cmdline to equal 480 and 800 respectively (the resolution of the screen). You can verify this by running:

Depending on your display stand, you might find that the LCD display defaults to being upside-down. You can fix this by rotating it with /boot/config.txt.

If some windows in X are cut off at the side/bottom of the screen, this is unfortunately a side-effect of developers assuming a minimum screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels.

At the moment you can’t use HDMI and the LCD together in the X desktop, but you can send the output of certain applications to one screen or the other.

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.

Insert the TF Card to Raspberry Pi, connect the Raspberry Pi and LCD by HDMI cable; connect USB cable to one of the four USB ports of Raspberry Pi, and connect the other end of the USB cable to the USB port of the LCD; then supply power to Raspberry Pi; after that if the display and touch both are OK, it means drive successfully (please use the full 2A for power supply).

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.

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Under [Service], we specify some environment variables. We want to connect to our primary display (this assumes only one display is connected to our Pi), so we set DISPLAY to :0, and we tell our application where to find the necessary credentials to use the X windows system with XAUTHORITY. ExecStart is the command we want to run (starting our Python clock program, in this case).

Unfortunately with systemd, we cannot tell exactly when the X system will start, and we cannot necessarily guarantee that a user will be logged in (unless you have enabled auto-login with sudo raspi-config). To account for this, we will brute force our program to restart (with Restart) every 10 seconds (with RestartSec) if it fails or exits. KillMode tells systemd to kill off any processes associated with our program if the service fails (or exits), and TimeoutSec=infinity means that we don"t ever want to stop trying to execute our program.

Because your systemd unit file will likely run before .bashrc can alias the command python to Python 3, you might need to explicitly call the python3 command. To do that, just make sure that your call to Python is an absolute file location, for example, /usr/bin/python3.

For some services, like our clock.service example, you will need to stop the service before stopping the program. That"s because even if you stop the program (e.g. our Python GUI clock), the service will simply restart it 10 seconds later! To stop a service, enter the following command:

Note that stopping the service should send a stop command (SIGTERM--terminate signal) to your program. In most cases, this should stop the service and your program. If your program does not stop, see below on stopping your program.

ps -ax tells Linux to list out all the currently processes. We send that output to grep, which allows us to search for the keyword "python" (feel free to change it to the name of your program). Find the process ID (PID) number to the left of the listed process, and use the kill command to terminate that process:

When you want to have an easier time of connecting to different media and selecting it, a single-board computer is an efficient option. The Raspberry Pi single-board computers work with a variety of peripheral devices, including LCD display modules with touchscreens. On eBay, you can find a variety of sizes and features of affordable Raspberry Pi touch screen units to pair with the single-board computer for enjoying your favorite media.What are some features of Raspberry Pi Touch Screen modules?

Automatic power off: If the touchscreen is not used within 10 minutes, it automatically powers off. This time can be adjusted to turn off in less or more time.

Signal support: It accepts EGA, SVGA, WXGA, VGA, SXGA, and UXGA video signals from the computer.What are the sizes of Raspberry Pi touch screen modules?

The Raspberry Pi touch screen modules are available in sizes of three to seven inches when measured on the diagonal. Their frames can be set up in a vertical or horizontal orientation for viewing in a portrait or landscape setup. The stands for the touchscreens can also be angled for easier use and viewing. See the manufacturer site for details.What is the compatibility of a Raspberry Pi display module?

The following are compatibility options for a Raspberry Pi touch screen display module:USB: They can display the information that is stored on a removable USB drive plugged into the Raspberry Pi computer.

Consider the following features when you are shopping on eBay for a new or used Raspberry Pi touch screen:With computer case: Some have a case for holding both the computer and the display in one unit.

7 inch mini HDMI monitor with HD 1024x600 resolution. This small LCD screen upgrades to IPS screen with larger visible angle and better image quality.

Plug and play, as easy as plugging micro USB cable for touch and power supply, HDMI cable for displaying, both cables included in the package, no driver needed.

The USB capacitive touch control is for Windows and raspberry pi system, free-driver, just connect the 7” screen by the USB port of the computer/ Raspberry Pi.

Can be used as a general-purpose 7 inch HDMI screen connected to your TV box, game console, or mounted inside your PC case as temperature stat panel display, etc.

Supports PC with HDMI port:Used as a small second monitor for laptop which has Win7, Win8, Win10 system, 5 point touch (XP and older version system: single-point touch), free drive.

Supports PC with HDMI port:Used as a small second monitor for laptop which has Win7, Win8, Win10 system, 5 point touch (XP and older version system: single-point touch), free drive.

Connected to RPI 4: Connect to HDMI 0 port when working with Raspberry Pi 4.(Just power the screen by the USB port of the pi if you want to get the touch function available)

Connected to RPI 4:Connect to HDMI 0 port when working with Raspberry Pi 4.(Just power the screen by the USB port of the pi if you want to get the touch function available)

*When working with Raspberry Pi 4, for the system image of Raspberry Pi after 2021-10-30, for example onBullseye, please modify "dtoverlay = vc4-kms-v3d" to "dtoverlay = vc4-fkms-v3d" in the config file, otherwise it may fail to start. But onBuster, please comment out "dtoverlay = vc4-fkms-V3D" by adding #.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add an LCD hat to your Raspberry Pi. This is an alternative to connecting an LCD display to your Pi through its HDMI port.

I will feature 4D Systems 4DPi-32 LCD hat in this tutorial. The 4DPi-32 is the 3.2" version of their 4DPi line of products which also include sizes 3.5" and 2.4".  It"s a resistive touchscreen, which means you need to have a stylus for it. You can buy the 4DPi-32 here

My Raspberry Pi is running Raspbian Stretch (November 2017 release) so make sure you have the same version before you proceed with this tutorial. You can download the Raspbian Stretch from the official site.

Next, we need to adjust the console size of the Pi to fit into the 3.2" screen. Since the 4DPi-32 has a screen resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, we need to adjust the framebuffer to this size. In the same config.txt file, locate the following lines:

To fit the contents of the console to the screen, we must change the framebuffer width and height to (width = 2 * overscan). For example, for a 320 pixel width, the framebuffer width should be 320 - 32 = 288. In short, uncomment the framebuffer lines and replace the values with these:

While the Pi is still off, mount the LCD hat. Then turn on the Raspberry Pi. If everything"s done right, you should now see the Pi"s desktop environment on the LCD screen.

The 4DPi-32 is a resistive touchscreen which means it would not respond to your fingers. You can use a stylus or any pointy (not too sharp) object that is non-conductive (plastic) to navigate through the screen. But first, you need to calibrate the touchscreen. To do that, install the following packages: