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Raspberry Pi Founder Demos Touchscreen Display For DIY Kits

Posted by Soulskill on from the pi-you-can-see dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Over 4 million Raspberry Pis have been sold so far, and now founder Eben Upton has shown off a touchscreen display panel that's designed to work with it. It's a 7" panel, roughly tablet sized, but slightly thicker. "With the incoming touchscreen panel The Pi Foundation is clearly hoping to keep stoking the creative fires that have helped drive sales of the Pi by slotting another piece of DIY hardware into the mix." Upton also discussed the Model A+ Raspberry Pi board — an updated version they'll be announcing soon.

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  1. We need a whitebox mobile device. by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the things I am missing is the idea of a whitebox mobile devices. so you can build your own phone and your own tablet.
    It may not be Sexy as an iPad, but you can configure in ways to get what you want out of it. More speed, more memory, better video, or huge battery life...
    That is what made the PC popular, was the fact that you could get a PC configured for what you need it for. A cheap low end box, to a high end system. Was all possible.
    This also allowed for a bunch of small companies to start building computers.

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  2. Re:After whast happened to Odroid-w, why? by jones_supa · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Isn't it more important to do cool and interesting things with a computer rather than everything obsessedly being open source?

  3. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Except I can do a shitload more with a Pi than you can ever do with a tablet.

    I love how the morons like you spout off when you dont know shit about electronics in general.

  4. Re:Have they apologized for attacking gamers yet? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    #gamergate and it's ilk needs to go away.

    I love video games and have been playing them since I was 8 (I'm 35 now). I will never again call myself a "gamer".

  5. Re:After whast happened to Odroid-w, why? by spire3661 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Are we going to keep saying this forever? When are these things going to fall to the floor and become wrenches? (A wrench is a universally used device with no encumbrances, a true tool.)

    We want tools of computing to be as useful and flexible and free (in design) as cement, steel girders, wrenches and sockets, pencils and paper.

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