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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.

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.

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!

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.

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This is a new Pi Pico display from Waveshare with many more pixels. It is a 2inch LCD display module, designed for Raspberry Pi Pico, with an embedded ST7789VW driver, 65K RGB colours, 320x240 pixels and an SPI interface. A Pi Pico can be plugged into the rear of the screen for very easy connection without any soldering. It sports 4 simple button switches for user input. It is bright, colourful and easy to program. The makers supply an example program (see below), which includes the display driver, making it very easy to get started. The manufacturer"s wiki can be found at:

The 3.5 inch LCD Display is directly pluggable into a Raspberry Pi and perfectly fits various Pi models from B+ to Raspberry Pi 3B+. It is a brilliant alternative for an HDMI monitor. When set up, it behaves as a human-machine interface enabling the user to prototype with the Raspberry Pi device anywhere at any time.

The resolution of the LCD display is 800 x 480, you can configure the resolution via software, and the maximum resolution it supports is 1920 x 1080. It is a USB capacitive touch screen and does not require a driver. It supports five touch control, besides that, the LCD screen comes with an OSD menu adjustment function. You can adjust the contrast, brightness, and switch button. There are 9 interfaces on the back of the screen, one earphone for audio output; two touches (USB connector), for power supply and touch output; one display, an HDMI interface, for connecting the motherboard and LCD display. One power, it can control the backlight to turn on and turn off to save power. One return, it’s only useful in the OSD menu. One right/down, backlight shortcut key. One left/up, backlight shortcut key. A menu, it’s useful in the OSD setting menu, open the OSD/ select key.

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

Note: This is user manual for version V1.0 7″ DSI screen. When you receive the version V3.x 7″ DSI screen, please visit link: https://osoyoo.com/2023/01/06/7-dsi-touch-screen-v3-for-raspberry-pi/

This LCD display supports Raspbian, Ubuntu MATE, Snappy Ubuntu Core, OSMC, and Windows 10 IOT Core and so on. Please download your system image from raspberry Pi official website: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/

The 7″ LCD display is an LCD display which connects to the Raspberry Pi through the DSI connector. It is capacitive touch LCD. It doesn’t need install driver, and you can plug and play. The Physical resolution of LCD display is 800*480.

The touch screen can be used as a mouse device. When we need to input text data to Raspberry Pi board, normally we have to connect a USB keyboard to Pi and this is really inconvenient.

The physical resolution is 800*480, but you can adjust the resolution form 800×480 to 1920×1080. Open micro SD card which you have installed IMG system and then open “/boot/config.txt” via Notepad++, and find the following lines:

LCD displays have an optimum viewing angle, and depending on how the screen is mounted it may be necessary to change the orientation of the display to give the best results. By default, the Raspberry Pi display and Raspberry Pi are set up to work best when viewed from slightly above, for example on a desktop. If viewing from below, you can physically rotate the display, and then tell the system software to compensate by running the screen upside down.

Note: If failing to adjust the brightness, please check the line “disable_touchscreen=1 ” in /boot/config.txt and comment it out  “#disable_touchscreen=1 #”

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 #.

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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.

After reading the other threads on resolution, etc. of RPi via composite output, I"m really curious if I could see some real world example photos of terminal output, like displaying some command-line stuff or some code that students might be editing in vim/emacs, via composite output on what is assumed to be most common size television in the target market, which I think is students in households with low income. From what I understand, in the beginning, these are the displays that students will be using, as a good number of them won"t have HDMI. My past experience with composite is that it was too low res and too fuzzy (in NTSC at least, maybe PAL is better!) even on larger (34") televisions to be usable unless the text size was huge, but that might have been due to the VGA to composite converter I used to have.

Unfortunately, your past experience is a good guide to future experience. :^/   The composite video signal only has so much bandwidth to offer, so composite video from the RPi will look quite a lot like any other old machine"s composite video output.  The old C64 format of 320*200 is about as good as you will get without going to interlaced output (which is really not very easy on the eyes - long ago, I spent a couple of years using an Amiga 2000 with a long-persistence monochrome phosphor monitor in interlaced mode, and even with the reduced flicker it was... okay-ish, but not great.)

With small LCD televisions getting very cheap these days, the odds are not bad that the family TV could already be capable of accepting an HDMI input.  There were certainly plenty of houses when I was a kid where the home computer could only be used when there was nothing to watch on the TV.

It seems to me that the composite output is more for applications like gaming or driving tiny LCD screens like the ones that come on portable DVD players, than as a way to use it for programming.  Of course, for people with impaired vision, it could be that large text from an RPi connected to a TV is just fine, and that would be a very worthwhile use of the composite video output.  I"m just saying, it will not look that much better than composite displays of yesteryear.

I can remember using WinAmp through composite and making extensive use of the windows magnifier, a pain but was enough to use it.  I would imagine unless you are doing terminal stuff (which for some is fine) you will struggle to program through an IDE etc (will probably be fine with a suitable GUI as media player though).  Also fine for playing games etc.

Hopefully, we can make use of other higher resolution screens we do have available (mobile phones, tablets, laptops) through remote software like VNC via network or even USB.

In the UK there is a specific font used for clarity on TV screens in applications like the interactive services (MHEG) called Tiresias. So if you use the red button to catch up with the news, consider what you see there as some indication of what readability is achievable.

I would imagine the team have considered this.  Off the top of my head I would guess that when you boot the Pi up with the Composite connector in use the display would adjust accordingly.  As far as I know NTSC is 720×480 (interlaced at 2 x 243 lines) and PAL is 720×576 (interlaced at 2 x 288 lines).

I would have thought that would be good enough to do some level of programming on.  I agree though that it would look a bit like workbench on the old Amiga.  Some pictures of this would be really nice though, so I would like to second that request.

Composite out is purely "output only" so the R-Pi would have no means to determine what is connected. It won"t likely be a problem for a TV which can auto adjust to any signal but some are PAL or NTSC only.

Composite out is purely "output only" so the R-Pi would have no means to determine what is connected. It won"t likely be a problem for a TV which can auto adjust to any signal but some are PAL or NTSC only.

Yes, it can go down in resolution. We are still working in how the user can define these parameters. Probably a (text) configuration file on the SD-card. The same holds for the composite video output. It can do PAL-BGHID, PAL-M, PAL-N, NTSC, NTSC_J. It just a matter of programming the TV-out hardware. We might not support all standards from the beginning though.

In my opinion, the most pressing question right now is if out of the box the console output in NTSC/PAL mode will take care of the overscan. IIRC, on the standard linux console you can select the font and limit the number of columns/rows to be displayed, but you cannot set an offset for the topmost/leftmost character. Maybe GNU screen could be an option, but my experience with it is very limited.

Yes, it can go down in resolution. We are still working in how the user can define these parameters. Probably a (text) configuration file on the SD-card. The same holds for the composite video output. It can do PAL-BGHID, PAL-M, PAL-N, NTSC, NTSC_J. It just a matter of programming the TV-out hardware. We might not support all standards from the beginning though.

In my opinion, the most pressing question right now is if out of the box the console output in NTSC/PAL mode will take care of the overscan. IIRC, on the standard linux console you can select the font and limit the number of columns/rows to be displayed, but you cannot set an offset for the topmost/leftmost character. Maybe GNU screen could be an option, but my experience with it is very limited.

I think you will be dissapointed, Mode7 (Teletext mode) and MODE 1 on a BBC B were both 40 characters horizontaly but Text in MODE 7 used the SAA5050 which almost doubles the pixel resolution of each character, see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....rd_SAA5050

When I get my Pi I plan to test it out on a number of old CRT TV sets.  I’ll post my findings in a youtube video I expect.  One thing that did occur to me was that LXDE could be configured to use larger UI elements and maybe different colours in order to make it look okay.

Thanks to everyone for the comments, but I agree with Davespice about getting back to trying to find a good pic. Could someone who has a Pi hook it up to a T.V. and show us what a terminal window (showing command-line with some code) looks like via composite at the highest usable resolution and post a pic here?

@andytuk took this photo of composite output during his time with Raspberry Pi beta board #7 (the one that was donated to the computing history museum).

5 inch small HDMI monitor with 800x480 mini LCD screen. The touchscreen is USB capacitive touch control, free-driver, plug and play, micro USB interface for touch and power supply, HDMI interface for displaying. the maximum resolution it supports is 1920 x 1080.

When working with Raspberry Pi 4: please connect to HDMI 0 port, and comment out by adding # in the front of "dtoverlay = vc4-fkms-V3D" or delete this line directly in the config.txt file.

When working with Raspberry Pi 4:please connect to HDMI 0 port, and comment out by adding # in the front of "dtoverlay = vc4-fkms-V3D" or delete this line directly in the config.txt file.

*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 #.

Rotating the screen to the proper orientation proved challenging. The config.txt rotate commands don’t work with the raspberry pi4. I couldn’t get the xorg configuration to rotate the display. When I added kernel commandline parameters to rotate the display, that worked for the initial verbose boot screen… but once KlipperScreen loaded, it was the wrong orientation.

I ended up having to modify the init function in screen.py as below, but it’s pretty hacky. Not sure if there’s a better way on a raspberry pi 4. But… it works

7) Connect the HDMI interface of the LCD to the HDMI port of Raspberry Pi and then power on the Raspberry Pi, it can display normally after waiting for about a few seconds.

The screen is displayed vertically by default. For convenience, you can adjust the display orientation of the screen, see #Rotation(Working with Raspberry Pi).

In some special systems, when you cannot rotate by modifying the software, you can press and hold the "Rotate Touch" button for 5 seconds to rotate touch. And you may need to test multi times for the correct orientation.

Note: If you increase the brightness, it may cause the insufficient power of the LCD by getting power through the USB interface. To solve this problem, you can input 5V/2A power through the Power interface on the back of the LCD.

Since the first-generation Raspberry Pi released, Waveshare has been working on designing, developing, and producing various fantastic touch LCDs for the Pi. Unfortunately, there are quite a few pirated/knock-off products in the market. They"re usually some poor copies of our early hardware revisions, and comes with none support service.

Please note that we"ve found some poor copies of this item in the market. They are usually made of inferior materials and shipped without any testing.

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