No, but I've got one of these ( https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(C) ) and a knockoff version by a Chinese company named "Elecrow". I've not used the touch feature on those -- they come with a capacitive touch panel applied -- but as far as LCD screens go, they're pretty good. Glossy (some people prefer matte), though, so they reflect well, in certain conditions.
I don't use mine with Pi's... I don't really use Pi's. Too weak in the CPU for me. I have a couple of super-small eBay-issue computers based around the Atom Z3735F that I run 'em with. Those computers all have HDMI outputs, after all, and these screens take exactly that as input.
The DIY laptop I made that Dan Maloney wrote up on the blog side a while back (and then I rebuilt it three or four times) uses the Elecrow display and (at present) a Z3735F MiniPC box. The WaveShare display got purchased for the AnyTop project, and (given that eBay was the source) I was quite surprised to get a genuine article. I've since built a /second/ DIY laptop (which I'm hoping Mr Maloney will write a second article about, once I get around to finishing the photography and sending it in), and it inherited the WaveShare screen from the now-abandoned AnyTop, asd well as a spare MeeGoPad T02 Z3735F "Compute Stick" clone. I intend that it'll replace entirely the original DIY laptop, which now has developed the most annoying bug of shutting off seemingly at random -- and relatively frequently at that. I'm a budding novelist, and this new DIY Laptop is to be a new writing box for me.
Whoops, sorry, I'm a windbag... that's enough yarn spun for now :P I'll shut my pie hole.
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No, but I've got one of these ( https://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch_HDMI_LCD_(C) ) and a knockoff version by a Chinese company named "Elecrow". I've not used the touch feature on those -- they come with a capacitive touch panel applied -- but as far as LCD screens go, they're pretty good. Glossy (some people prefer matte), though, so they reflect well, in certain conditions.
I don't use mine with Pi's... I don't really use Pi's. Too weak in the CPU for me. I have a couple of super-small eBay-issue computers based around the Atom Z3735F that I run 'em with. Those computers all have HDMI outputs, after all, and these screens take exactly that as input.
The DIY laptop I made that Dan Maloney wrote up on the blog side a while back (and then I rebuilt it three or four times) uses the Elecrow display and (at present) a Z3735F MiniPC box. The WaveShare display got purchased for the AnyTop project, and (given that eBay was the source) I was quite surprised to get a genuine article. I've since built a /second/ DIY laptop (which I'm hoping Mr Maloney will write a second article about, once I get around to finishing the photography and sending it in), and it inherited the WaveShare screen from the now-abandoned AnyTop, asd well as a spare MeeGoPad T02 Z3735F "Compute Stick" clone. I intend that it'll replace entirely the original DIY laptop, which now has developed the most annoying bug of shutting off seemingly at random -- and relatively frequently at that. I'm a budding novelist, and this new DIY Laptop is to be a new writing box for me.
Whoops, sorry, I'm a windbag... that's enough yarn spun for now :P I'll shut my pie hole.
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