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.