[chbot] [Not quite robotics] Touch screen for RPi

[Nick Rout]

Thanks, but VGA isn't much good with a RPi I'm afraid. In fact it
seems most small SoC systems are HDMI only. (Rpi also has composite of
course, but that's no help in this project).

Cheers, Nick.

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Jasper Mackenzie
<jasper.mackenzie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a whole ton of 12" touchscreens, 1024x868 w VGA in and serial out.
> Issues are usually a silicon fuse on the inverter board.
> Let me know of you are interested.
> I was going to do the same, instead I run banshee on xpra and use the
> banshee remote for android.
>
> On 23 Jul 2014 19:04, "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You are right, I think I have looked over that site so many times, and
>> the kits look identical. Good thing I have you to read for me.
>>
>> Yes touch is the idea.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Andrew Errington <erringtona at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Actually, this one is:
>> >
>> > http://www.dx.com/p/7-digital-touch-screen-drive-board-hdmi-vga-2av-for-raspberry-pcduino-cubieboard-318884
>> >
>> > A
>> >
>> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:02:01 Nick Rout wrote:
>> >> I am looking to get one of these
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> http://www.dx.com/p/7-digital-lcd-screen-drive-board-hdmi-vga-2av-for-raspb
>> >> erry-pcduino-cubieboard-black-275810#.U89LRKa14pk
>> >>
>> >> for a raspberry pi project, but wonder if anyone has any perspectives,
>> >> locally available products, or other wisdom.
>> >>
>> >> (For those who are curious I am planning to set up a wall mounted
>> >> music player system running squeezelite (squeezebox player software)
>> >> and jivelite (squeezebox touch control software). My inspiration is
>> >> this project
>> >>
>> >> http://www.instructables.com/id/Wall-Mounted-SqueezePlayer-with-Raspberry->
>> >> Pi/ but the LCD he uses is a weeee bit expensive!)
>> >>
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