Stick your finger in another Pi: Titchy-puter now has touchscreen The Raspberry Pi Foundation has given its seal of approval to a 7-inch touchscreen for its flagship microcomputer. The makers of the hobbyist quad-core ARM-powered system said the $60 screen will allow display and touch functions to be accessed from software. Drivers for the screen are included with the latest version of …
Not correct. This is the first screen that uses the DSI port on the Pi, rather than HDMI or the GPIO's. So you get to retain all the GPIO's plus, you can actually connect a HDMI screen and one of these to get a full speed (60hz) dual display setup. (three, if you use the GPIO's with yet another panel, as you describe, which is much slower but possible)
I know that this may be sacrilege (and I have a number of raspberry pi's myself) but after adding the screen, SD card, pi etc, it's no cheaper than a low end tablet (and the tablet usually has a better screen). The raspberry pi is more flexible, no argument there, but the screen is a bit overpriced...
" it's no cheaper than a low end tablet (and the tablet usually has a better screen"
Does your tablet have four USB ports, three different screen outputs and 40 GPIO pins? Oh, and an ethernet port 8)
I know what you mean but they are rather different beasts. I use one as a MythTV frontend for example and no tablet is going to touch it for that. Another one will soon be monitoring my office (sensors, Zoneminder etc etc).
It also doesn't want to send *ahem* telemetry data to persons unknown.
"800x400 is what is stated in the article,"
That would be 800x480: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-eagerly-awaited-raspberry-pi-display/
/. managed an auth source, not sure why it wasn't linked here. The journo linked the store though which also has the spec.
See above for comments about why a RPi is not a tablet.
Article still says 800x400, and the extra 80 doesn't change the inadequacy of the resolution. I'm not sure why you direct me to comments about why it isn't a tablet. I'm well aware of that fact, it would be a crappy tablet as it is far too thick and (comparatively) power hungry. I merely mentioned that many cheap tablets have better screens to make the point that a reasonable resolution touch screen can be had for not much money.
The resolution does seem ... ridiculously poor. In a world where 5 inch phones now regularly exceed full 1080p reso natively, that RPi 7 inch screen is not something I would put my money into. Many years ago maybe, but not today.
However that does bring up an interesting idea for a RPi case: A real 7in touch screen (with at least 1080p resolution) in a case with a battery. Just plug in your RPi board and instant tablet! That might be a fun waste of money. Instead of an iThing I could have a piThing, complete with official (alternative) fruity logo on the case. :D
But definitely not with this paticular 7 inch blunder. The idea is great. The resolution ... not so much.
I have an O2 Joggler which is a table top touch screen computer running an Atom processor on a lower resolution display. I have to say that the screen keyboard experience of Mint isn't fantastic and I don't think any of the distros are great for a desktop environment because the desktop flow doesn't match that experience.
Yes, he is, but they are all in the same office. The charity side concentrates on teacher training and outreach and so on, the trading side on HW development. Note that the commercial HW side is a fully owned subsidiary of the charity, so all it's profits go to the charity.
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