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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.
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..
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.