The quite famous little computer, known as the Raspberry Pi, now has an official touch screen which has been launched and should be available immediately with US $60/£48 price tag.

The 7-inch touch screen has been in development for about two years. It has a 800x480 resolution and offers 10-point capacitive touch support. According to the report, the touch screen comes from Inelco Hunter, a manufacturer based in the UK and The Raspberry Pi Foundation wanted to make sure that the screen has met certain requirements of color and pixel quality, contrast ratio, viewing angles, affordability and manufacturing quality.

It has a 70-degree viewing angle, 10-point capacitive touch support, 24-bit color and aforementioned 800x480 resolution at 60 fps. The display has a power requirement of 500mA and can be powered by an external power supply or via PWR OUT GPIO connector from the Raspberry Pi.

Since Raspberry Pi now supports two displays, one via HDMI and one via DSI (Display Serial Interface) which the new touch screen uses, it is possible to control the Raspberry Pi via touch screen, thus no longer needing keyboard and mouse.







Source: RaspberryPi.org.