Raspberry Pi has a new Touch Display ready for inexpensive interactive projects

In a nutshell: Raspberry Pi released its first charismatic show 9 years ago. The institution is now providing a mild upgrade to nan original accessory, pinch amended specs and a precocious level of compatibility pinch different Pi generations. Best of all, it remains astatine nan aforesaid debased price.

The precocious introduced Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is simply a caller LCD sheet designed to supply multi-point capacitive touch controls to Pi-powered projects. The original Touch Display is still 1 of nan astir celebrated Pi accessories, almost a decade aft its debut. The newer type should spot akin results, particularly astatine nan aforesaid $60 value point.

The Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 has a higher solution than nan original – 720x1280 pixels versus 800x480px. The 7-inch show has a multi-touch capacitive sheet pinch support for 5 points of contact. It has a importantly slimmer shape facet and does not require a abstracted powerfulness proviso arsenic it borrows from nan big device.

The surface installs pinch conscionable 4 screws and is afloat compatible pinch Raspberry Pi OS, pinch circumstantial drivers for touch controls and an on-screen keyboard. The Raspberry Pi Foundation says nan Display 2 is afloat functional without a abstracted keyboard aliases mouse. The surface supports rotation, but image format is nan default, which explains why Pi lists its solution arsenic 720x1280 alternatively of 1280x720.

The Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is accordant pinch nan company's committedness to semipermanent merchandise availability. The original Touch Display will remain successful accumulation for nan foreseeable future. However, RPF will nary longer urge it for caller Pi projects. The caller Touch Display 2 will beryllium Pi's goto surface constituent until astatine slightest 2030. So that Raspberry Pi business customers tin use from a much extended support period.

Touch Display 2 is compatible pinch each nan main single-board machine designs developed by nan UK company, starting from Raspberry Pi 1B+ onwards. The Raspberry Pi Zero is nan only exception, arsenic nan system-in-a-package committee does not see nan required DSI port.

Raspberry claims it spent 9 years refreshing nan original Touch Display to get nan caller creation right. Developers tin now usage Touch Display 2 to create caller interactive projects specified arsenic tablets, intermezo systems, aliases accusation dashboards. Your LCARS-themed, wall-mounted smart location controller is conscionable a DIY task away.