for Raspberry Pi 3 B 3 5 inch Touch Screen with Case 320x480 Pixel Monitor TFT LCD Game

This product is awesome. A little bit complicated for installing drivers, but it works perfectly. Good quality. Highly recommend. Read more

Wow, it comes with a case and heatsinks. It was really easy to put together and the included instructions were really easy to follow to get the display working. The touchscreen works and the display is bright and good enough to use in a terminal. Note: to rotate screen, run the rotate.sh script with desired screen rotation, the rest is taken care of for you. The screen doesn't have very good view angle support, it only works well if youre looking on it straight on, but I highly doubt anyone who is making a device with a screen like this really cares about stuff like LCD view angle. Read more

I fought for 2 days to figure out why as soon as I enabled the LCD in this kit, the Pi would go into a boot loop until I reflashed the SD card with the image. Turns out this is not compatible with the 64 bit Kali package for the Pi. That being said, the screen is great resolution and color wise, though being TFT lacks a bit of angle. Works wonderfully for the purpose, though. Touch response is as expected from a resistive touch screen, but again... serves the purpose. Overall, this is an amazing deal for the money! Read more

Couldnt get it to fully work. After spending many hours with different scrips and OS versions, I came to the conclusion that it was just not possible. For those reading this. I was using a RSPi 3B+. I tried waveshare scripts, goodtft scripts on 64bit os, 323bit os, 32bit legacy os, 32bit os lite (no desktop) and simply could not get it to run the desktop environment or the terminal on startup. I was able to ssh in and get the terminal to boot but there is no point if you have to ssh for even that. If you want to just display an image i was able to run a python script and display jsut a generic image but there isnt much point in doing that either. After quite a bit of research most people opt for a DSI screen which requires no drivers. Read more

I found this touch screen to be generally very easy to install and the price was appropriate. The physical assembly was straightforward with one exception that the instructions for the corner standoff strain relief did not exactly match the hardware I received. The software was pretty easy to set up too. I tried installing their pre-packaged images as well as pulling the driver installation from git onto Raspbian. They all worked flawlessly. I do wish it was easier to find the electrical pinout and the make/model of the LCD screen so that I would know what pins are available for other purposes. Read more

Saw post below it would not with the latest Raspberry Pi of 64 or 32bit OS for RPi 3b+. Yes, confirmed that! Using RPI 'legacy' OS image. Then the install procedure WORKS. Then run updates and it still works. So far good resolution for such a small screen & touch use. For the most part use VNC & SSH on my desktop to control & modify it. Read more

Screen brightness cons: The screen is a great idea, if you're running a headless (GUI-less) OS. Once the GUI comes into play, it's rather annoying. It's too bright to work at night, and too dark to work during the day time. There's no way of changing the screen brightness, or even turning the screen off to save power.. This would be ok for people who need some sort of monitoring device, but not good for headless servers that don't need 24/7 monitoring. This issue might be more serious, when you monitor certain numbers 24/7, and the numbers get burned in the screen. Screen viewing angles: The viewing angles are just plain horrible. Up or down, they're acceptable. But left or right, you an only go 45 degrees, before the colors wash out. Screen resolution cons: The resolution is well below the recommended resolution for a GUI (which is 786 pixels). You can either run it at it's native 480x320 resolution, and see only half of the menus, Or, run it at double resolution 960x640. Too bad Raspbian doesn't support this specific resolution. If you're plugging this in with a secondary monitor, you'll have to balance out the resolution between the two. Obviously 480x320 is going to look like crap on your main monitor, and is unworkable, and 1920x1080 is not even going to be visible on this small screen. So the best balance is 1280x800. Text is nearly unreadable, but all the rest looks ok. Or 720p, image is slightly stretched, and slightly better viewable. 720x576p is readable on the screen, but 720x480p is probably the most usable resolution on the tiny screen, aside from native. Touchscreen cons: This has a resistive touch screen as opposed to a capacitive touch screen used by most cellphones today. This means there's a soft plastic layer on top of the screen, that's prone to scratching and smudging. It's cheap, and functional, but again, this fits best in a scenario where you're running a headless OS. Screen frequency cons: The screen has a lag of nearly 200ms, or about 10-100x slower than a TV or monitor. You can visibly notice the difference when moving the mouse, and when it actually moves on the screen. They say it has a 50Hz frequency, but in USA we use 60Hz. So I'm not sure if this means there's a combined output of like 24Hz or so. I mean, the image is not fluid motion. The manual says 'up to 50Hz' which is something rather unusual, as most other monitors say '50Hz'. The mouse also appears and disappears on the screen, but not on a main (Big) monitor connected to the HDMI output. This means that the issue is at the driver's level. Screen mounting cons: The screen also doesn't use the screen connector from the raspberry pi. Instead it mounts on the GPIO pins. I'm sure this is why there's a lack of performance. But also, this will disable access to the GPIO pins. To about 50% of the pins are now occupied. Case cons: The case is a good case, and everything fits. They've learned from their past mistakes, and made a case where power and HDMI connector now DO fit! (not the case with their previous case). However, You can not mount a fan in this case. You can not use GPIO pins. This case has insufficient cooling , and is enclosed. At idle, the CPU hovers between 55 and 60C (and this is with a larger than included, improved heat sink). About 15C higher than when leaving the case open. The previous case was a lot cooler as well, as it had more venting holes. The bottom of the case, does not allow for a heat sink to be mounted on the bottom chip. So what I did, was take a soldering iron, and melt a plastic square, the size of a heat sink away; on the spot where the bottom chip is located. I used one of the included heat sinks to mount on the bottom. It's sticking out of the case by a bit. The case comes with 2 plastic tubes that supposed to support the display, but there's no way to mount them. Instead there's a plastic spacer included that you can stick on the screen, so it'll rest between the GPIO pins, and on the USB connectors. Read more

This a great screen and case for a raspberry pi. Touch screen works really well even with the resolution turned higher than the screen native resolution. This is a great value for having a pi with case an working screen. It will make the pi a little warmer and take more power, but that's to be expected. I do wish there was also a way to turn off or down the back lighting, but I have not tinkered with it enough to figure that out. Overall a great product for the price. Read more