Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display

Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-Touch-Display-2

[Raka555]

These days I kind of agree with this guy: When Did Raspberry Pi become the villain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjzvh-bfV-E

[Quackdoc]

Only tangentally related, I really wish there was some standardization in the embedded display stuff, or at least tools we could use to make quick and dirty converters.

on an actually related note, I didn't see a thickness mentioned, which would have been nice. Im not sure if this shares the dimensions of the first display because I hadn't really cared for it at the time. had to open the pdf. 15mm, still thicker then I would like, their data sheet is a bit dumb leaving you to do some math for yourself but oh well. so the actual device dimensions before any tech is added is, 189.32mm x 120.24mm x 14.92mm, which is with standoffs that are removable.

Without the standoffs you are looking at around 9.5mm I think total thickness if I didn't catastrophically mess something up due to lack of sleep. This is not too bad, with some kapton tape and hotglue with something such as a pi zero, you have a nify machine.

[amity]

I just want a *pre-assembled* rpi-like touch device that I can drop-ship to customers with an SD card, why is this not a thing? I know FCC compliance is expensive but still.

[ezst036]

This looks pretty sweet. I have a Pi sitting around that I'm not using, and upgrading it into a tablet would be kinda cool.

Do they offer some sort of battery for sale to go along with it? (I mean a separate purchase of course)

Is there a tablet case/plastic casing for carrying around on the go? (another separate purchase, I mean)

[bearoso]

Where are the actual specs? Color gamut, sync frequencies, response times, display controller? They list transmissive by default, which coincidentally is scarcely ever reported, but not the actual useful info, particularly for a hobbyist device.

[Quackdoc]

Where are the actual specs? Color gamut, sync frequencies, response times, display controller? They list transmissive by default, which coincidentally is scarcely ever reported, but not the actual useful info, particularly for a hobbyist device.

I mean we can already guess that from the price, these will probably be "acceptable but not good" on all accounts.

[ExplodingLemur]

The new display has different dimensions and mount point locations than the old display, meaning it's incompatible with all existing cases/brackets/mounts. I don't understand why they didn't make this a drop-in replacement.
Dimensional drawings of the old display: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/d...al-drawing.pdf
New display (on page 4): https://datasheets.raspberrypi.com/d...duct-brief.pdf