Raspberry Pi multitouch display now on sale at $60RASPBERRY PI Raspberry Pi multitouch display now on sale at $60

Raspberry Pi multitouch display now on sale at $60RASPBERRY PI

                     

It isn’t difficult to connect a Raspberry Pi to a screen via the HDMI port, but the company now decided to make it even easier by launching an official RaspBerry Pi display. It’s a 7-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen display with 10-finger touch support and priced at only $60 that is approximately Rs 4,000.

It is now available via Swag store, and will be selling through some others soon. It requires only two connections to the Pi – power from the Pi’s GPIO port and a ribbon cable that connects to the DSI port on the Raspberry Pi.

It supports an on-screen keyboard integrated into the Raspbian OS for full functionality without the need for a physical keyboard or mouse.

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Turn your Raspberry Pi into a touch screen tablet, infotainment system, or standalone device.

Truly Interactive – the latest software drivers will support a virtual ‘on screen’ keyboard, so there is no need to plug in a keyboard and mouse.

Make your own ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) devices including a visual display. Simply connect your Raspberry Pi, develop a Python script to interact with the display, and you’re ready to create your own home automation devices with touch screen capability.

A range of educational software and programs available on the Raspberry Pi will be touch enabled, making learning and programming easier on the Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi is a tiny, low-cost computer and the company launched the upgraded second variant dubbed Raspberry Pi 2 earlier this year at $35. It features a 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU, 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM has complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1 and according to the Raspberry foundation this can run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10.

While the Raspberry Pi is priced at $35, another project, the Orange Pi has launched similar mini PCs including the OrangePi Plus – an open source single-board computer running Android 4.4 , Ubuntu, Debian, Rasberry Pi Image, using the AllWinner H3 SoC and1GB DDR3 SDRAM. The Orange Pi is priced at $15.