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Best display for Raspberry Pi?

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You may have seen this Raspberry Pi Project.

 

 

 

http://www.whence.com/rpi/adafruit-tft-on-raspberry-pi-mplayer-thumb.jpg

 

 

 

This 1.8 TFT LCD seems to be a very nice display for Raspberry Pi.

 

http://www.sainsmart.com/sainsmart-1-8-spi-lcd-module-with-microsd-led-backlight-for-arduino-mega-atmel-atmega.html

 

 

http://www.sainsmart.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x500/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/0/4/04_8_4.jpg

 

 

Does this hook right up to the GPIO pins?

 

 

 

How hard would it be for someone like me who knows nothing about electronics?

  • Hello Reblay, could I suggest that you have a look at this thread on the RasPi forums:  http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=48956

     

    I have one on my desk that I hope to start playing around with soon. It is a good price and looks a great bit of kit, will have more to report soon hopefully !

     

    Steve

  • I have had that display running on a pi (the sainsmart version). Both command line and a very, very small desktop.

     

    If you get one, take note of the colour of the tab on the screen protector.  Believe it or not this is your only clue as to which implementation is inside.

     

    I found it too small for my intended purpose, but it is cute.

     

    Wiring it up is trivial, but you will need to recompile your kernel with support for tft lcd framebuffers.  Building a module is not sufficient -- the stock rasbian kernels don't know what to do with it.  Instructions are googlable.

     

    This assumes you want to use it as a standard screen.  For dedicated purposes you could always drive it directly.

     

    I'm saving mine for an arduino project.