Official Display For Raspberry Pi is Finally Out

Its a great news for all those folks who were waiting for the launch of official display from the Developers of the raspberry Pi. And now the wait is over, as we can now buy the latest touch screen display that is intended for the use with Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi has attracted a lot of electronics enthusiasts from all around the globe because of the power it has. you can develop all sort of cool things if you own a Raspberry Pi. But we will talk about the projects on Raspberry Pi later. This time we are here to give you a quick review on the latest official display for Raspberry pi.

The long wait is over now and finally you can buy this touch screen display for 60 USD from online stores such as The Swag Store, Premier Farnel/Rewark and at Rs components/Allied electronics. But you have to wait a little longer if you wish to buy this display from any other store. 

Image courtesy: www.raspberrypi.org

some of the main specifications of the official raspberry Pi display

• It is a RGB display that has a nice resolution of 800×480 pixels, and can play contents @60fps.
• 24-bit color output.
• FT5406 10 point multitouch supported capacitive touchscreen display.
• Great viewing angle of 70 degree. 
• Metal-backed display and has got mounting holes for Raspberry Pi. 

You will need a separate power supply in order to use the display, but stay assured for the top-notch performance from this display. If you have already bought this display then just head towards the Raspberry pi foundation page and follow the instructions in order to make the display run. 

RPi Distributions

Ubuntu Mate For Raspberry Pi

The two persons behind the Ubuntu based OS for Raspberry Pi are namely Rohith Madhavan and Martin Wimpress. they have worked hard and built the Ubuntu Mate 15.04 that you can download or you can even build it yourself. it wont support the older versions of Pi, you will need the Raspberry Pi 2 or higher in order to try this distribution. 

you will; need a micro SD card of at least 4 GB in size if you are looking to try out this great OS for RPi.

Windows 10 for IOT development

Microsoft has launched a customized version of windows 10 that will support the new Raspberry Pi 2. last month Microsoft has announced that it will roll out the free versions of the customized version of windows 10 OS that can be able to run on the latest version of the Rspberry pi.

Microsoft came up with this decision because we are seeing a huge number of devices being developed and launched by the IOT developers worldwide. Its an era where internet connected devices are being preferred by a large community as they have the ability to be controlled from anywhere in the world.

you can download a copy of Windows 10 OS for Raspberry pi and give it a try.

OSMC Or Open Source Media Centre (RASPBMC)

Looking forward to build your own media centre? Then what is stopping you from creating your own media server. I mean just download the stable version of the OSMC, dump in onto a micro SD card and get started streaming high quality media. 

Just Stay tuned with us, there is lot more in this list which will be here very soon. 

GETTING STARTED WITH RASPI

SO , WITHOUT WASTING OUR TIME LET US START SETTING UP OUR RASPBERRY PI. 

• BUYING WHAT YOU NEED FOR RUNNING A RASPBERRY PI:
  • RASPBERRY PI (MODEL A, B OR B+) CHOOSE AS PER YOUR NEED.
    
    • USB POWER SUPPLY ( YOU CAN USE YOUR PHONE'S CHARGER.
    • KEYBOARD AND MOUSE.
    • DISPLAY DEVICE(MONITOR OR TV).
    • HDMI OR VGA CONNECTOR.
    • SD CARD(4 GB RECOMMENDED).
    
    

    OPTIONAL 

    • USB HUB
    • WI-FI ADAPTOR.
    • HDMI-to-VGA ADAPTOR(IF YOU ARE USING A MONITOR).
    • CASE.

NOW LETS HAVE A QUICK LOOK ON HOW TO SETTING UP THE MEMORY CARD FOR THE BOOTING UP OF RASPBERRY PI.

*  AT FIRST FOLLOW THE LINK  http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ AND GET AN IMAGE OF THE OPERATING  SYSTEM YOU WANT TO INSTALL ON YOUR RASPI.

* NOW DOWNLOAD THE FORMATTING TOOL FROM https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/TO FORMAT THE MICRO SD CARD TO PREPARE IT FOR INSTALLING AN IMAGE OF OS.

* NOW INSERT YOUR SD CARD IN THE CARD READER SLOT OF YOUR COMPUTER AND USE THE FORMATTING TOOL TO FORMAT IT.

* DOWNLOAD WIN32 DISK IMAGER FROM SOURCE FORGE PROJECT PAGE.EXTRACT THE FILE AND RUN win32diskimager AS ADMINISTRATOR.

* SELECT THE IMAGE FILE THAT YOU HAVE DOWNLOADED AND EXTRACTED ABOVE.

* SELECT THE DRIVE LETTER FOR SD CARD, PLEASE PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION WHILE SELECTING THE DRIVE LETTER. AS BY SELECTING THE WRONG DRIVE, YOU WILL END UP BY DESTROYING ALL YOUR DATA ON THE HDD.

* IF YOU ARE USING THE SD CARD SLOT AND CAN'T ABLE TO FIND THE DRIVE LETTER FOR YOUR SD CARD THEN TRY A USB CARD ADAPTOR.

* CLICK write AND WAIT FOR THE IMAGE TO BE WRITTEN ON THE DISK.

* EXIT THE IMAGER AND EJECT THE DISK.

NOW AS YOUR SD CARD IS READY WITH AN OS INSTALLED ON IT, YOU CAN GO AHEAD WITH BOOTING UP YOUR PI.

* CONNECT THE COMPLETE SETUP SUCH AS MOUSE,KEYBOARD,MONITOR ETC.

* INSERT THE MICRO SD CARD THAT YOU HAVE PREPARED ABOVE INTO THE CARD SLOT OF THE RASPBERRY PI.

* POWER ON YOUR RASPBERRY PI AND FOLLOW THE ON SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS.

* LOGIN DETAILS ARE AS

 ::LOGIN- pi

 ::PASSWORD- raspberry

* TYPE startx AND HIT ENTER TO GO INTO GUI.