Would this touchscreen work with a Raspberry Pi?

Question

I'm looking at getting this 659GL-70NP/C/T touchscreen for my Raspberry Pi but I'm not sure if the touch surface will work with the Raspberry Pi Android OS. Will it?

Answer 1

I don't know if you can get this screen to work with the RPi, but on an older thread on Raspberry Pi site (2012AUG02), I found this message from Limor Fried on a suggestion to port Adafruit Arduino code to use in RPi touch screens. [0] I assume any code they use will using the Adafruit RPi distro. [1]

hang tight folks, we are working a lot of products for the pi, including a touchscreen!

-ladyada

You can read the post here. [2] I'm pretty sure this was also repeated on a RPi Friday video somewhere. I'll add a link when I find it.

Reference

[0] adafruit, "Touch-Screen-Library: Arduino library for 4-wire resistive touchscreens"

github.com/adafruit/Touch-Screen-Library

[1] adafruit, "tweaked distribution for teaching electronics using the Raspberry PI"

http://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro

[2] adafruit reply to jfornango "Tue Sep 18, 2012 4:50 pm"

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=64&t=8983&start=25

Answer 2

Not sure if the Raspberry Pi has networking support on the DVI port.

The HDMI 1.4 is supposed to support Ethernet on Pin 14 HEC Data-

(Optional, HDMI 1.4+ with Ethernet)

Not that that device has HDMI. Or even DSI.

I would pass on that and wait for the DSI activation. PSP I think uses DSI touch screens.

Answer 3

It depends on your OS. It should work, but your OS might not have the required drivers. If you're using raspbian I wouldn't, it doesn't have very good video drivers, but android or something else, give it a try, you may have to do some editing to config.txt.