Portable Pi with Touchscreen

[tetravalence]

Hello,
I'd like to share my progress on a portable Raspberry Pi system with a 3.5" display and a 4-wire resistive touchscreen. The interface is all through I2C, leaving the USB ports open. Everything runs off of a single 12V power supply, with 12V going directly to the display and 5V to the Pi through a step-down buck converter. Drivers are fully implemented as kernel modules and the input is configured and calibrated through Xorg and work on the default Raspbian.
There are still some issues to work out, and I have to get it all packaged in one secure setup, but all in all it's coming along quite well. If there is enough interest, I can post instructions.

The system all tethered up and in action

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You can see pictures of the work as it went along here
http://tetravalence.imgur.com/

And a video of it in action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwEwHFglq8M

[crookedmouth]

That is awesome and very small.

It will be cool when Android gets fully ported, you can switch between both OS's and have Android work as intended.

Nice work!

[malakai]

Interested post info please

[jimw83]

Great work. Would love to see the instructions.

[tetravalence]

Here's the general idea until I find the time to write a detailed guide.
On the hardware side:
Soldered the TSC2007 IC onto a TSSOP-to-DIP adapter
Soldered a 4-wire-ribbon-to-SMT adapter to the DIP adapter and inserted the ribbon
Soldered wires for 3.3V, GND, SDA, SCL, and PENIRQ (can be connected to any GPIO that isn't in use) and connected to the respective GPIO pins
Mounted the touch panel on the TFT LCD

On the software side:
Installed the kernel source and configured for building modules
Compiled and installed the TSC2007 driver (luckily there's already a platform-independent one in the kernel source tree) along with the necessary platform data driver for the existing driver, which I wrote.
Calibrated using xinput_calibrator

Perhaps I should write an entry in the wiki? I'm going to be busy in the next few days, but I'll get to the guide soon enough! I still have to tweak some of the parameters to make the interface more natural, but it's functioning for now.

[Miek770]

Just wanted to express my immense interest for this project!

[ChalkElec]

Hi guys, we are offering 10" capacitive touchscreen for RPi. It is using the HDMI/LVDS adapter to run this baby. Check out our webshop (http://www.chalk-elec.com/?page_id=1280 ... t=priceAsc) and video http://youtu.be/Sx_vFY7ioEQ
Cheers!

[aaa801]

Hi guys, we are offering 10" capacitive touchscreen for RPi. It is using the HDMI/LVDS adapter to run this baby. Check out our webshop (http://www.chalk-elec.com/?page_id=1280 ... t=priceAsc) and video http://youtu.be/Sx_vFY7ioEQ
Cheers!

Stop thread hijacking.

Are you planning to sell the completed screens?

[Dan30888]

Hi I have a 4 wire resistive touch membrane I would like to connect to my raspberry pi. I am planning to use my pi as a car media player through the cars built in display and would like to add the touch capability to it. As the screen is built in buying a LCD touch screen isn't an option this leaves me with only being able to add the resistive touch membrane. Is it possible to connect it to my pi? It is a USB touch membrane if that helps.

[ChalkElec]

Hi guys, we are offering 10" capacitive touchscreen for RPi. It is using the HDMI/LVDS adapter to run this baby. Check out our webshop (http://www.chalk-elec.com/?page_id=1280 ... t=priceAsc) and video http://youtu.be/Sx_vFY7ioEQ
Cheers!

Stop thread hijacking.

Are you planning to sell the completed screens?

Hello aaa801, sorry I just meant to share our solution to all RPi fans out there. We are already selling the whole solution which you can check it out. http://www.chalk-elec.com/?page_id=1280
Thanks!

[msmithy12]

watch the youtube vid and see how CPU hungry their drivers are. That really put me off their product.


FYI I have a touchscreen with my pi which was sourced from a UK supplier (made in china i assume) and was delivered in 3 days! I would suggest a google search or a forum search if you clicked this looking for a larger screen. I wont put up a direct link cos i'm not trying to forum hijack, just hoping people are searching all the forum before ordering. (tip look for in car monitors)

[TillM]

watch the youtube vid and see how CPU hungry their drivers are. That really put me off their product.

This is complete FUD! No I don't work for them or have any association with them, but I do have two of their touchscreens for the raspi that are working quite well for me. The makers explained why the cpu was spiking on their blog and it has nothing to do with their touchscreen drivers. The drivers for these touchscreens are standard in linux hid_ntrig and they work very well on any linux computer. The problems with the raspi is it's too slow to do this kind of stuff until broadcom or someone else releases a hardware accelerated Xorg driver.

[msmithy12]

My bad! Just a bit dubious of asian markets (get a lot of sub standard stuff from there in my 9-5) glad people are enjoying these displays. As i said previous i tried a lilliput display that worked well after a day or 3 playing with calibrators. Im hoping to use my pi and touch screen as a front end to drive a PIC via I2C that will do some timing and testing things.

(at risk of being accused of hijacking a thread will a touchscreen work in RISCos? Just heard that RISC os is better for time crucial stuff?)

[sghsmorgan]

Very interested!

[++bahjatk++]

How did you power both the Pi and the screen using the same power source ?
Is it as simple as connect two wires to the + wire, and two wires to the - wire ?

[ktbsupremo]

Hi there,
can you give more details about the power source you have used.
I'm trying to make a portable laptop out of it but am tight for money any help would be appreciated xD

[robotmaker]

This is really cool! Exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for for one of my projects! do you think you could put this on instructables? http://m.instructables.com/ It's a really cool diy site that has contests and I'd really vote for you if you entered it! If you won you could even get a MacBook. People just usually vote for the first really cool thing they see, like this!

[sghsmorgan]

Any info from the OP yet?

[thk02]

I'm interested to realize a project with my students. Can you send me all technical informations ?

[nexusrex]

and do you know what i will need
because i want to make a portable gaming pi with raspbian image and i want a cheap touchscreen
and what is the name of the touch screen from digikey and the controller
and how you connect the controller of the screen to the pi
has digikey shiping to egypt

[jedhodson]

Hi
Is it possible for the TSC2007 to work on an android OS with the Pi.
If so please say how.

Jed