Little Touch Cool Factor

Most of you are probably looking for 65″ or more inches of screen these days.  And you are probably looking to kick your feet up and enjoy watching it from several feet away.  But I’ve been looking for something a little smaller and something that I can put my fingers on.  Say in the 7″ range to fit inside my Star Wars lunchbox.

The Waveshare 7″ is exactly what I need for the project. 800 X 480 resolution might not be as nice as my Google Nexus 6P 1440 X 2560 screen but it will work for what I need it to.

Here is a pic of the back of the board.  Couple things to point out.  In the upper left corner is the HDMI display connector, right below that is the USB connector to pass the Touch data back to the Raspberry Pi and then right below that is an on / off switch for screen backlight.

Looking forward to assembling the Star Wars Pi in the old Sandeen sweat factory.  I’ll probably employee my 10 year old daughter, Talia, so that I can take advantage of cost of child labor to keep my cost per unit affordable (she’s really excited to help me on this.)