Dear friends welcome back!
This is Nick from educ8s.tv and today we will
take a look at the 5inch touch display from
Waveshare.
We are going to see how to set this display
up with Raspberry Pi, and how to use touch
with it.
Let’s start!
Few weeks ago, I received my first Raspberry
Pi board which I now start to learn how to
use it.
It is a great board but I also wanted a display
in order to be easier to work with it without
having to use an external monitor each time
I wanted to play with my Raspberry Pi.
I wanted it to be a touch screen in order
not to have to use a mouse as well.
After a lot of searching I concluded that
the ideal display for my needs would be this
one, the Waveshare 5inch touch screen for
Raspberry Pi which has a resolution of 800x480
pixels.
It costs around 40$.
Gearbest.com webstore was kind enough to send
me a sample unit in order to test it.
Thank you guys for supporting our channel!
As you can see, I managed to get the display
up and running, and the touch screen is working
fine!
It took me some time in order to figure out
how to do it, as it is not plug and play as
I first thought.
The display comes with this HDMI adapter and
this stylus.
All you have to do is to plug the screen in
your Raspberry Pi board.
I am using a Raspberry Pi A+ board, but it
works on any Raspberry Pi board except from
the Raspberry Pi Model A. Next you have to
connect the HDMI adapter like this.
BE CAREFUL though, as I read on some forums,
NEVER power up the display without the HDMI
adapter connected to the Raspberry Pi as it
may damage the display.
I am not sure if this is a real issue, but
I don’t intend to find out with my display.
After connecting the display we have to find
the appropriate drivers for it.
The display works with the NOOBS distribution
but touch screen is not.
I lost a day trying to install the touch screen
drivers for the display on my NOOBS distribution.
It does not work, at least in my case.
I then found out an extremely easy solution.
We have to go to the Waveshare product page
and simple download the Raspberry Pi image
file.
It contains the full Raspbian distribution
with all the settings and the drivers installed
and configured.
All we have to do then is to write that image
to a formatted SD card using Win32 Disk Imager
and that’s it.
The SD card must have a capacity of at least
8GB.
After writing the image to the SD card all
we have to do is to boot our Raspberry Pi.
The Pi boots up, and everything works as expected!
The last step is to run the Touch screen calibration
utility and our touch screen is set up!
It is that easy after all.
Links for all the software can be found in
the description of the video.
As you can see the display works fine.
It works with the finger as well if the buttons
of the user interface are big enough.
If you want to buy this display you can find
a link for it in the description of the video.
I think this display, or any touch display,
greatly improves the Raspberry Pi board, as
we can now build standalone projects that
do not require keyboard, mouse or monitor,
since we use a touch screen for user input
and output.
I plan to use this display in many projects
to come.
By the way, I have many projects to build
in mind.
You can find them in this website, www.educ8s.tv/ideas.
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you would like to be built first, or post
your own project ideas.
I plan to work on the projects with the most
votes first.
So consider voting the projects you like and
help me decide which projects are more useful
and interesting to you, the viewers of the
channel!
Thank you in advance!
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