{"id":1577,"date":"2013-08-21T08:19:28","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2013-08-21T08:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T15:36:46","slug":"displaylink-vs-tft-resistive-touch-screen-for-pibox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"DisplayLink vs TFT resistive touch screen for PiBox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so working alone you often find yourself falling behind the curve.&nbsp; I just got my DisplayLink working the other night and today I found this little device &#8211; a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7CQt9nlTBEE\">2.8&quot; TFT resistive touch screen for the Pi<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?attachment_id=1578\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1578\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1578\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/?attachment_id=1578\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/touchdisplay.jpg?fit=1024%2C685&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,685\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"touchdisplay\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/touchdisplay.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/touchdisplay.jpg?fit=1024%2C685&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"touchdisplay\" border=\"1\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1578\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/touchdisplay.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/touchdisplay.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/touchdisplay.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/touchdisplay.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a much better solution than the DisplayLink for the trailer.&nbsp; But if I spend any more money getting this thing working I may have to sell one of the dogs.&nbsp; Eeek.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;m going to keep going with what I have and then return to the touch screen option a little later.&nbsp; I need to get to a fully functioning prototype before I go to cost -reduction and feature-enhancement mode.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.co.uk\/itm\/2-8-TFT-Touch-Shield-board-\/221269596609?\">buy this display via eBay.uk<\/a>.&nbsp; It&#39;s about $32US, plus shipping.&nbsp; There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=93&amp;t=48956\">discussion topic<\/a> about it on the Raspberry Pi forums for the original version, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/phpBB3\/viewtopic.php?f=93&amp;t=53144\">which has since been updated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so working alone you often find yourself falling behind the curve.&nbsp; I just got my DisplayLink working the other night and today I found this little device &#8211; a 2.8&quot; TFT resistive touch screen for the Pi.&nbsp; This is a much better solution than the DisplayLink for the trailer.&nbsp; But if I spend any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,565],"tags":[573,39,574,572],"class_list":{"0":"post-1577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hardware","7":"category-raspberry-pi","8":"tag-displaylink","9":"tag-graphics","10":"tag-prototype","11":"tag-resistive-touch-screen","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe9t8-pr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graphics-muse.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}