Raspberry Pi Touch Screen Released

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 8, 2015 @06:40AM from the so-your-kids-will-shut-up-about-angry-birds dept.

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.

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Re:Available for a long time by FranTaylor · 2015-09-08 06:59 · Score: 5, Insightful

most of them looking more customized for the rpi than this one.
RTFA:
"Using DSI keeps the Pi's HDMI port free, so people can use both the small touchscreen display and a big monitor or TV simultaneously."
maybe you can provide a list of other touchscreen vendors that are using the DSI interface?
Re:ummm by FranTaylor · 2015-09-08 07:02 · Score: 5, Insightful

There's already been PLENTY of RPi compatible touchscreens (PiTFT).
unlike all the others, this one uses the DSI interface so you can get good performance (unlike SPI displays) and you can also plug another monitor into the HDMI port.