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Raspberry Pi Touch Screen Released
An anonymous reader writes: The Raspberry Pi has been enormously successful, but one frequent request has been for the Foundation to create a simple touchscreen to go along with it. Gordon Hollingworth said, "I honestly believed it would only take us six months from start to end, but there were a number of issues we met (and other products diverted our attention from the display – like Rev 2.1, B+, A+, and Pi 2)." Now, after two years of development, they've launched a 7", 800x480 LCD that runs at 60 fps. The capacitive screen supports 10 simultaneous finger touches and has a 70 degree viewing angle. The Raspberry Pi Foundation's blog post provides some interesting technical background on electromagnetic compliance and how to connect and use the display.
At 194mmX110mm it's just a wee bit too big for the standard double DIN stereo slot. Bummer.
Could this be an alternative to CarPlay?
Good that the Foundation has now released their own screen, but touchscreens for the rpi have been available for a long time, most of them looking more customized for the rpi than this one..
Only 10 simultaneous filter touches allowed? I have 15 fifteen fingers you insensitive clods!
With Amazon releasing a $50 table, this seems rather pricey to me.
But, at least there is a choice.
There's already been PLENTY of RPi compatible touchscreens (PiTFT).
With the culture of "Learn how to make it yourself" that the RPi was supposed to create, this is almost dissapointing that the foundation themselves are putting one out.
Too bad...I know it's supposed to be accessible to everyone, but it feeds into the "Why should I put the effort to learn/write stuff when someone's already got what I need for the right price?" mentality. I found most of the fun of this stuff to be figuring it out for myself.
That's what all the cool kids want to know.
Will you still be able to use the HDMI as well as this screen?
Wow, 800x600 running the unusually high framerate of 60 FPS for only $60! What a steal!
Fuck buying a whole tablet with a 720p display for the same price, this is obviously better because Raspberry Pi.
It's 800x480, but does support 10 finger multi-point touchscreen. Does not include a PI, you'll order that separately, so total price is about the same as the $99 amazon tablet things which does support 1280x600 60Hz.
so total price is about the same as the $99 amazon tablet things which does support 1280x600 60Hz.
amazon tablet things don't have a GPIO header with signals broken out and a mature user libraries in many languages for using them. Nobody is saying that a raspberry pi is the same as a tablet.
I'm pretty sure the stupid AC a couple of posts above you drifted into the fantasy that the Pi and touchscreen are the same product category as a tablet. Maybe you should read what you're responding to.
And I thought the hardware grew on the vine? This is not cheap by any means. Wrong way.
I believe apple's next phone has 21 simultaneous touches! This Pi screen is obsolete before it hits the market.
I would love the Raspberry Pi to have a better processor that's comparable to modern tablets or the Intel Compute Stick.
I would love the Raspberry Pi to have a better processor that's comparable to modern tablets or the Intel Compute Stick.
The new quad-core system is totally usable when running debian, even on an enormous monitor. Disk IO is sluggish but the processor and display are rocking. It's much snappier than the old pentium systems that I used for years.
I prefer to think of it as a touch screen display that costs not much more than a low end full tablet with touch screen display.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
They are committed to keeping the price at $35. For the money that's a lot of bang. The thing is that it's useful for all kinds of things at an almost throw away price. Sure, for $100 I can get something that'll run rings around it. I can buy 3 Pi's for that price and do all kinds of projects. Actually I set up a camera network around the house with 6 of the A+ models that are just 20 bucks apiece. They use next to no power and if it gets fried I'm only out 20 dollars. These things aren't really for normal computing, they are for hobbyists and educators.
It's about equivalent to a Pentium III. I've been playing around with one and I made the mistake of trying to run Scorched3d on it. That was really pretty sad. Solitaire rips though! I have to say although it's usable as a desktop I can pick up a curb throw away computer that will easily out do it. The place the Pi shines is with things like home automation and car computers and things like that. The only limit is your own creativity.
I can see using one of these on my next bespoke musical instrument controller. Ever since I got my Surface Pro, I've been dreaming about home-brewing something cool for music production with a Raspberry Pi, and this might give me a good opportunity.
But I might wait until they come up with something with higher resolution.
You are welcome on my lawn.
And a candy bar is a $1.25
Does the door fee Amazon charges to get a portal to their store have any logical relation to the cost of chocolate or development boards?
The AC was just making a crap troll post. He could have just as easily complained that the display is too big and doesn't come with a user-changeable wristband, so there's no way it can compete with an Android smartwatch which you can get for ~$150.
Ya, but the Amazon model won't have a bunch of geeky wires all around it.
It's about equivalent to a Pentium III.
Pi 1 or 2? In CPU and disk maybe, but the Pi does have fast graphics - will do full-HD HTPC duty, unlike your kerb find. As well as the hardware i/o.
Or for $99 you can get an quad core, 64-bit Intel Atom based tablet with 1280x800 60Hz 10 point touch screen, 2GB RAM, 32GB flash storage, 2MP front and rear cameras, micro USB 2.0, full size USB 3.0, micro SDXC and micro HDMI ports. For $59 you can also get about the same, except with half the RAM and half the storage space. An entire compact PC that you can hack to your heart's delight.
Only a fucking moron would buy a Raspberry Pi.
Yeah, I made the mistake of trying to use a Pi as a desktop PC too, it's really not for that. As a Media Centre though it's awesome. Also a timelapse camera, and a digital photo frame it's great too.
And a PC tablet has much more mature libraries than the Raspberry Pi which has only existed for a couple of years compared to the decades long reign of x86.
Non-sequitur much?
*Anything* you can do with an overpriced, underpowered Raspberry Pi piece of shit, I can do better on a $99 tablet.
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Really? How much more for you to add something like some temperature sensors, humidity sensors, servos, etc? I can add most of those at cost of the sensor/servo/device since I can directly interface it to the Pi. Keep in mind, the Pi is not for someone that wants a tablet. It is for someone that wants to tinker, learn about electronics/software, teach about electronics/software, etc. And You can also set up a pi and access it remotely (through something like SSH). I don't have many tablets that could server as a web server, and no computers that can do that at 5volts.
Faster, and has a SATA port
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It's okay as a desktop PC but it's really shines for other computing uses. The graphics really are nice in 2D but 3D is a different matter. I do have one behind the TV serving up movies and tv shows. I'll have to drag out my old PIII laptop and run some comparisons in things like converting a CD to mp3 files. I remember doing that on a dual Pentium 2/333 box. I know it wasn't as fast as my i7 Mac Mini for sure. I'm amazed at CPU power compared to 15 years ago. I started with an 8bit C64 clocked at 1mhz with 64KB of RAM. Sometimes I see people call things like the Raspberry Pi slow and it makes me laugh. I wonder if anyone has even tried ripping a CD with an RPi?
If you wanted to tinker, you'd buy individual components and breadboards to build your own stuff, not use some prefab, wannabe hacker shit like Raspberry Pi.
Oh and there are a large number of sensors and servos that you can easily pair up or connect with any tablet or smartphone. Hell, many of them already have temperature and/or humidity sensors BUILT IN. Your ignorance is showing.
I wonder if anyone has even tried ripping a CD with an RPi?
My Pi runs Kodi, including converting AAC 5.1 to DD/AC3, or stereo upmix, on the fly, so I don't think ripping CDs will be a challenge :)
I actually found several videos on this subject on youtube when I finally looked. One guy has a video of using his pi as a headless cd ripper. Pretty cool stuff.