How To Set Up A GPIO Screen For Raspberry Pi | Waveshare 3.5 Inch Touch LCD

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Set up your own Pocket Computer! All small GPIO screens for the Raspberry Pi go through a very similar process to set up. The Waveshare 3.5 Inch LCD 480x320 is the perfect example to demonstrate how.

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There is a whole range of Sub-4 Inch Displays that attach directly to the GPIO pins of Raspberry Pi Palm-Sized Computers. Many of them are touch devices and increase the usability of your Raspberry Pi whilst making almost no size sacrifices. For scenarios where a high frame rate is valuable/desired, such as playing retro games, whilst keeping the same form factor the display methods I would direct you to use is a IPS HDMI screen as you will get fantastic high FPS results straight away. The HDMI ports on the Raspberry Pi boards are very powerful and more effective at transferring video data than the GPIO pins. But for situations where you only desire a simple UI with touch then these small displays are perfect. The GPIO also offers a very rugged sturdy connection and together make for a compact nugget of practical computing power. The process will be done in this guide so that you do not need to access the Raspberry Pi headless. This is a much easier way to approach setting up a Raspberry Pi system with a GPIO display for beginners but you can definitely do this process remotely. If you want to squeeze out some extra performance from your screen by diving into the configuration files.

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0:00 Intro
0:13 Overview of Sub 4-Inch Displays
1:15 What You Need
1:49 Assembly of Components
2:11 Power to the System and Configuration
2:37 Finding Terminal Commands
3:12 Show the GPIO Screen Terminal Commands
4:07 Rotate the Screen Terminal Commands
4:40 Get the Right Resolution
5:37 Calibrate Touch Screen
6:35 Outro

[tubeDude]

*apt-get* is NO LONGER needed- only *apt* is needed.

[TheBennasio]

No matter which problem I have with my raspberry pi Projects, when I pass through your videos everything work... thanks

[matthalstead]

Thank you so much I’ve been trying for days now and your method is the only one that worked!!!

[majdramadan]

thank you a lot, I'm in love with your way when you keep smiling and explain everything in details

[Dillixx]

Touchscreen only works in the bottom left perfectly. Anywhere else and it just clicks a random place, calibrated properly

[tomisinolujinmi]

Feels like this guy is letting me on a something super secret with the way he is grinning ear to ear 😂😂

[patrickhallermann]

I am such a dum@$$. I actually thought it would just work out of the box. Thanks so much for the video. Subscribed.

[tophlaw]

Thanks for the informative video.
I've been debating on what type of screen to get for my projects & although I realize GPIO is the slowest means of sending data to the screen it would've been great to see how bad it was since it does provide a nice compact form factor.
So I wish you had taken a moment to show how these GPIO screens handle games or video playback then a quick comparison vs a DSI screen.

[jonesphotography]

Pretty cool mate, I’m keen to have a go

[BetrayedVenus]

Can you please do the waveshare 1.44 LCD HAT on the Zero W running raspian legacy

[MomasGameDev]

Does my XPT2046 need different drivers to yours? It looks exactly the same but just makes my HDMI show a blinking cursor and my display stays showing white.

[BlommaBaumbart]

Pleasant video to watch. You seem to refer to the slash (/) as backslash, though.

[gasmonkey]

In the off chance ya see this and have the time I was curious if ya reckon the same principle applies with setting a Raspberry 5 pi with that screen.

[eepisgq]

I have a question, what should I do if my screen is boot looping?

[lbjlnyz]

great video, thanks! im building my own retro games emulator and needed a screen for the pi!

[tonkofonko]

perfect video really helpful on my new Raspberry Pi 4 8GB version with display. :D

[mastercarclub]

My 3.5 screen reboot and shows the black box, and then still black and do not show anything... any tips? I re-installed everything twice...

[elektronkim]

I got a 3.5" display to work. It's from all this kind of documentation in existence. My software version is "goodtft" and it seems to be the same.

[sijithskumar]

Hi Tim, thank you for the instructions. Is there a way to have display on both the LCD screen and the HDMI monitor at the same time. I love the convenience of the large screen and also not having to run the code every time I disconnect the monitor. TIA

[petersummers]

When I am trying to set resolution on the screen, CEA mode 109 is not there. Any ideas why?