How to use 2.8″ USB Touch Screen for Raspberry Pi

Posted by: admin , January 31, 2014

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]RoboPeak developed a 2.8″ USB TFT Touch Display Module for SBCs, including pcDuino and Raspberry Pi. In this tutorial, we will look at the steps to use this 2.8″ USB TFT Touch Display module on Raspberry Pi.

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Features

Extensive Device Support

You could leverage it as a display to present most of embedded development board on the current market (such as RaspberryPi, pcDuino, etc.). Benefit from USB interface that provides opportunity for those devices that cannot connect with monitor for display in the past like Router. In addition, we support Arduino Yun and Intel Galileo Developer Edition!

Standard Device Interface

With the drivers developed by RoboPeak, RPUSBDisp can be identified as a standard display and touch-screen device by target operating system, that means any existing graphical interface program can be displayed without any modification.

Open Source Brings More Possibilities

As an open source project, we provide its schematics, communication protocols, Linux kernel driver code and so on. That helps you create more creation easily based on this module.

Specification

Display Resolution: 320×240
Color Depth: 16bpp
Screen Size: 2.8 inch
Communication: USB2.0 Full-Speed
USB Interface Specifications: Micro-USB
Touch Screen: Resistive Single Point
Size: length 74mm, width 60mm
Weight: 50g

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1 x Raspberry Pi
1 x 2.8″ USB TFT Touch Display Module
1 x Micro USB cable
8G SD card or larger

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[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”Documents” tab_id=”1391134075751-3-5″][vc_column_text]The user manual can be found at: https://s3.amazonaws.com/linksprite/pcduino/rpusbdisp_usermanual-enUS.1.0.pdf[/vc_column_text][/vc_tab][vc_tab title=”Steps” tab_id=”1391134150467-4-6″][vc_column_text]Download the three software packages above and following the illustration below :