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It was in November last year that Raspberry Pi introduced its 7″ Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2. Which, in turn, was a successor to its original, long-standing (2015) Touch Display. And now, sharing the same resolution as its sibling (720×1280) the 5″ display is available at the lower price of $40.
As before, the display is aimed at interactive projects, such as entertainment systems, as well as serving as information dashboards. There’s also support for an on-screen keyboard, without the need to connect a keyboard or mouse.
With an active area measuring 110.4 mm × 62.1 mm, the full Touch Display size is 189.32mm × 120.24mm. And note, the multi-touch capacitive panel supports five-finger touch. As always, it is fully supported by Raspberry Pi OS and is powered from a host Raspberry Pi.
(Note, however, it is not for a Raspberry Pi Zero, due to the absence of a connection DSI port.)
Ecosystem
Raspberry Pi’s CTO of Software, Gordon Hollingworth, highlights this integration with the rest of the Raspberry Pi product ecosystem.
“Its capacitive touch screen works out of the box with full Linux driver support,” he writes, “no manual calibration required, no hunting through device trees, and no wrestling with incompatible touch controllers.”
“Connect it to your Raspberry Pi (our installation guide shows you how, including connecting to the Raspberry Pi’s standard 5V GPIO supply for power), and you have a fully functional multi-touch display that just works. Now you can concentrate on your project instead of hardware hassles.”
In this article, he describes a case study of using the display with AI (Cursor, using the Claude Sonnet 4 model). This is for a simple slideshow application.
Touch Display
The transmissive LCD TFT display comes with an anti-glare surface. And there are two connections: for power from the GPIO port, and a ribbon cable to connects to the DSI (display serial interface) port on host (except for the Raspberry Pi Zero, as mentioned).
The display format is 24-bit RGB, and the viewing angle for the 5″ display is 80 degrees (the 7″ is 85). And there’s a typical touch response time of 35ms.
Finally, there are eight M2.5 mounting screws.
You can read the full product brief on the Raspberry Pi website.
See also: GamerCard combines Raspberry Pi Zero and handheld gaming
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Alun Williams
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