Mini screen for the Raspberry Pi

[MartinLenord]

Hey Folks,

So today I bought a tiny little 3.5" LCD screen for my Raspberry Pi it was only cheep and cheery, but I didn't think the 640x480 resolution was bad for £20

had to do some tweaking to the boot config.txt to get the resolution displaying correctly as it was trying to display at 720px wide rather than 640px

anyway, here's a pic, I need a mini mouse and keyboard, then it'd look like a computer designed for a borrower



if anyone's interested in the screen this is what I got http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pro.....0056WJP1M/ hopefully I'll be able to make a case so I can mount it to the Pi

Just thought I'd share this as I've seen a few people mention mounting mini screens to the Pi, and this could be a fairly low cost solution

[the_marshal]

640x480 is perfectly adequate for a 3.5 inch screen. However composite video is really the worst type of video signal. Definitely not great for displaying text and finer detail.

I guess its adequate depending on what you intend to use it for.

[MartinLenord]

True, it's by no means the crispest picture ever, but text is readable and video looks fine, I really just wanted to see if it'd work at all, it is a shame that it isn't hdmi, but i have a feeling that if it was it would have cost a little more than £20

[0rphu]

You might be interested in these

http://stores.ebay.com/njytouc.....34.c0.m322

They are mostly 7 inch 800x480 panels with controller kits. No box, fits ideally with the Pi design wise

There are some with DVI input. Shipped from China, so there might be some VAT and customs. Still worth checking though.

[alexeames]

0rphu said:


You might be interested in these

http://stores.ebay.com/njytouc.....34.c0.m322

They are mostly 7 inch 800x480 panels with controller kits. No box, fits ideally with the Pi design wise

There are some with DVI input. Shipped from China, so there might be some VAT and customs. Still worth checking though.



what sort of DVI? A or D. It doesn't say

[JeremyF]

alexeames said:


what sort of DVI? A or D. It doesn't say


DVI-A doesn't really exist on it's own generally. Usually it's just the analog piece of DVI-I. It's extremely unlikely there would be DVI-A on its own on a controller with multiple inputs.

[joe]

Please post a photo that works, I'm dying to see!

Also, if the config was tricky, please post that too.

[MyGodAL3X]

I am curious as to know if those could have a touch screen overlay and thus be used as a touchscreen for the RasPi?

Any idea?

[slippern]

what about touch drivers since the Rpi uses ARM?

[matt@shagshaw.com]

Hiya

Just got my pi !!! Well excited !!!

Anyway, I will be using my pi as a music/video/slideshow/old games player in the car, using the composite out to a few small screens I have. I have written most of the code, will share when I get it done !!!! I need some help with the config.txt

One is a 3.5 inch screen, which I think is 640x480 pixels, 4:3

the other 2 are 7 or 9 inch screens, and I think their native res is 480x234, 16:9 (car dvd players 2nd screens, a great buy off ebay, £24 !!!)

I know how to set the aspect, but I am not sure what setting to use for the 640x480 and 480x234
settings, the only setting I see on a good page I found is the hdtv_mode, which I thought was only for the hdmi connector.

Can the original poster please post his setting for 640x480 please for the small screen. I should then be able to suss the setting for the (slightly) larger screens !!!

[JeremyF]

framebuffer_width=width of display in pixels
framebuffer_height=height of display in pixels
sdtv_aspect=1 for 4:3 sdtv_aspect=3 for 16:9
sdtv_mode=0 for NTSC sdtv_mode=2 for PAL

[matt@shagshaw.com]

JeremyF, Awesome thanks, will try in next coupla days and let t'yall know how it goes !!!!

[matt@shagshaw.com]

Thanks again JeremyF

But the example settings I saw didn't mention the = sign for the setting, what I saw as examples stated :

sdtv_mode 2
sdtv_aspect 1

So can u just please confirm that the = is required or not

[JeremyF]

Thanks again JeremyF

But the example settings I saw didn't mention the = sign for the setting, what I saw as examples stated :

sdtv_mode 2
sdtv_aspect 1

So can u just please confirm that the = is required or not

I do not have a Pi, but the = should be required.

[grim2020]

You might be interested in these

http://stores.ebay.com/njytouc.....34.c0.m322

They are mostly 7 inch 800x480 panels with controller kits. No box, fits ideally with the Pi design wise

There are some with DVI input. Shipped from China, so there might be some VAT and customs. Still worth checking though.

I didn't see any with DVI input, just VGA.

[boundlesslimits]

or http://dx.com/p/3-5-tft-lcd-monitor-vis ... -15v-49796?
sorry about double post.. i am spoiled / used for an forrum edit button

[Sid Icarus]

You might be interested in these

http://stores.ebay.com/njytouc.....34.c0.m322

They are mostly 7 inch 800x480 panels with controller kits. No box, fits ideally with the Pi design wise

There are some with DVI input. Shipped from China, so there might be some VAT and customs. Still worth checking though.

Those screens look really nice, but its bad that they don't have any case.
Did anyone buy it?

[pooklaroux]

I bought one of these
http://www.amazon.com/Pegasus-ST09-B-9- ... =pd_cp_e_0

has a 9 inch screen. Connected via composite cables. It's not great.

I think the smallest hdmi equipped monitors I found on amazon are around 14" and $150. Anyone found anything smaller for less than $500?

[gunflame]

You might be interested in these

http://stores.ebay.com/njytouc.....34.c0.m322

They are mostly 7 inch 800x480 panels with controller kits. No box, fits ideally with the Pi design wise

There are some with DVI input. Shipped from China, so there might be some VAT and customs. Still worth checking though.

Those screens look really nice, but its bad that they don't have any case.
Did anyone buy it?

I bought a 8.9 Chimei screen+DVI controller from them. I had 2 issues with it though... not really their fault

- The delivery to my home country took a long time (almost a month). But this was expected. After all they shipped from China. If they send it to US probably takes 2-3 weeks instead

- I think I burnt the screen :/. I managed to make the screen work connecting it from my DVI desktop computer to the DVI controller, but when I tried to connect it to the RPI (through an DVI-HMDI converter) I couldn't make it work. I kept trying different stuff and eventually the screen never booted back on.

It was probably my fault because of bad manipulation or a faulty DC power supply (not included)... I'm getting new screen (same screen different vendor) and trying to make it work. I'm working on a school project with very limited funding so I can't afford a brand new controller

[mxchi]

Hi, I like the idea using a small cheap LCD as display terminal for rpi, especially
I only tend to use my rpi in commandline mode.
Just one question, do you need extra power supply for your display?

[markw12]

hi guys anybody know if a 480 x 272 4.3 inch display would work ok with the rpi?

mark

[joan]

That would depend on the inputs it can handle. The Pi provides HDMI and composite video.

[PacificDragon64]

Hey GUNFLAME:

is this the unit you bought?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-9-TFT-CHIMEI- ... 5650973e81

Did you also get the controller with it?

I was wanting to buy this same unit. Does anyone know if this will run Out-Of-The-Box using HDMI connection? Isn't this the same thing as connecting to my TV screen?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks all!

[EasyViber]

I guess this could work nicely with Rasberry Pi, too bad it's 170$

It's a 5.6" TFT LCD with 1280x800 px and additional VGA/HDMI controller board

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-6inch-TFT-LCD ... 460786d0bf

[enzocodini1342]

Hello !
I have a small-screen game console(it's a 3rd party sega clone) and i wonder if i cold use that mini lcd there. I'll say to you after watching what's inside the console.
(sorry for my english i am from argentina)
Thanks,
Enzo
PD: this is the console: