Pi3 B with sense hat - how do I add touchscreen?

I am new to this and recently bought the IBM IoT Learning bundle to go with the Coursera dev. course. I added the official 7" touchscreen but cannot work out how to mount the Sense hat to the Pi3 and the Touchscreen together. For example the 2 power wires come from the pin connector to be used by the Sense hat and the pillars and screws don't make sense to me as the Pi3 is mounted to the back of the touchscreen.

Any advise from you experts would be appreciated. Thanks.

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0 shabaz over 8 years ago

Hi Alkesh,

To keep the 40-pin header free for the Sense HAT, you could solder the power wires for the 7" display to the back of the Pi and then epoxy-glue them in place, as can be seen here:
Raspberry Pi 7” Capacitive Touch Display: Assembly and Enclosure
However it is a warranty-voiding thing I suppose. If you're confident then do it.

Another approach is to power the Pi and the display separately using two supplies or some splitter cable if it exists; a bit messy.

The display isn't really needed for the course; it would be ideal for creating a monitoring view or configuration panel, i.e. some
user interface.
But for actual software development you should be using a higher-res monitor and keyboard, and ideally just a PC or laptop.
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0 beacon_dave over 8 years ago in reply to shabaz

Alternatively it looks like you can power the R-Pi via the display board using a USB cable, which then keeps the GPIO free for the Sense Hat
https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/addons-guide/display/
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0 Former Member over 8 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

That's great thank you. I'll get a USB lead to go between the screen and Pi
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0 Former Member over 8 years ago in reply to beacon_dave

That's great thank you. I'll get a USB lead to go between the screen and Pi
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