Magazine Raspberry Pi Geek has published online their review of the new Touchscreen from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They are generally positive about it and provide a lot of detail as to how to use it in various ways. Read the review here.
Magazine Raspberry Pi Geek has published online their review of the new Touchscreen from the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They are generally positive about it and provide a lot of detail as to how to use it in various ways. Read the review here.
This is a good review. I was lucky enough to get one of the first displays, and following Matt Richardson’s project (previously detailed by you) https://github.com/mrichardson23/rpi-kivy-screen I decided to develop a touch screen driven Sonic Pi Jukebox for Raspberry Pi utilising Kivy for the front end, the sonic-pi-cli gem written by Nick Johnstone https://github.com/Widdershin/sonic-pi-cli to communicate with Sonic Pi, and some of my own compositions for Sonic Pi to play. I also set up the Pi (using the Jessie distribution) to autoboot into Sonic Pi and to automatically load the Kivy front end using a python script triggered by a specially made .desktop file entry placed in the .config/autostart folder. The result is a compact self contained system, which will run off a solar charged battery pack, and together with a Pi-Hut speaker will give a keyboard free, mouse free, mains free, music system. After you have finished with it, you can touch select quit and shutdown to close down the system. A video of the setup ( with a mains powered amp and power supply) is on youtube at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFoBkX1Ydxw
Hopefully I will get around to doing a fuller write up soon.
That’s really cool. First time I’ve seen Kivy being used for anything other than “Hey look, this is Kivy” purposes. 🙂