Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Wiring

Hook up your pi to a monitor plug in your keyboard and mouse and boot your pi into raspbian.

Raspberry pi touchscreen wiring. Step 1 with the lcd laying flat with the controller board facing up and the brown ribbon cable assembly facing you locate the dsi ribbon cable connector on the left side of the. The connector on the edge of the board at the opposite end to the usb connectors is for connecting the display. Before we assemble the touch screen we need to make sure that our raspberry pi has the latest version of raspbian and that all the software is up to date. Raspberry pi touchscreen cables.

The final bit is to power the screen and raspberry pi. The pi hut does a suitable one which you can buy here. The raspberry pi touch display is an lcd display which connects to the raspberry pi through the dsi connector. The image below shows both connectors.

A 7 touchscreen on your raspberry pi is handy for many uses as it allows you to have complete control in a very small form factor. In this project you ll learn how to assemble and configure the official 7 touchscreen. You must use a good power supply that is able to supply at least 2 amps. The power supplied to the screen will also power the raspberry pi through the jumper wires you connected earlier.

In some situations it allows for the use of both the hdmi and lcd displays at the same time this requires software support. Switch on the power and watch your raspberry pi. There is a second connector of the same type that is for connecting a raspberry pi camera. The lcd display board ships with the display controller board installed onto the back of the lcd panel and has 4 standoffs attached for the raspberry pi to mount to.

Raspberry pi display connection.