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Topic: Raspberry pi 2.8" LCD Touchscreen

I saw this on the adafruit website, and paired with a raspberry pi plus octoprint/ printrun, it could make a very neat and useful alternative to other small lcds.

http://www.adafruit.com/products/1601

Is there any frontend out there that could fit on such a small screen well?

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Re: Raspberry pi 2.8" LCD Touchscreen

This is interesting

Google search "Beaglebone black chipsee"

Beaglebone Black ($50) + Chipsee touchscreen ($150) + Wifi card = combo that can run compact versions of Windows (XP,7,8?). For $200 you'd have a bare bones computer that could download STLs, slice them and host the printer without an SD card or the need for octoprint. In the near future I'll have a demo of this running an SD3 on RAMPS.

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Re: Raspberry pi 2.8" LCD Touchscreen

BlackestofOz wrote:

This is interesting

Google search "Beaglebone black chipsee"

Beaglebone Black ($50) + Chipsee touchscreen ($150) + Wifi card = combo that can run compact versions of Windows (XP,7,8?). For $200 you'd have a bare bones computer that could download STLs, slice them and host the printer without an SD card or the need for octoprint. In the near future I'll have a demo of this running an SD3 on RAMPS.

Be aware that its still only a 1ghz ARM processor with 512mb of RAM.. not exactly going to be a trail blazer in terms of slicing and dicing. This has been the limitations for most other solutions - you can already happily run many frontends under linux - including repetier-host.... Its the ability to slice inside a few minutes thats the limitation. Even quad-core ghz+ SoC's struggle...

Personally, I'd be more keen on seeing some cool would lashup with a replicape ; ( http://beagleboard.org/project/Replicape/ ) with the LCD... this way you can actually still do away with not only a host computer, but also the controller...  and it'll be just as fast/flow as lumbering around WinCE (which isn't needed for repetier-host.... you can already run it under linux smile )

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Re: Raspberry pi 2.8" LCD Touchscreen

I was never looking at using this for slicing, as I have the old model B with 256 mb of ram, and that would take way too long on one of those!  I'll be interested to see what software they end up using with Replicate for such a small screen.  for the time being, I'm just running Octoprint on it, but at least I have the option to use the printer while taking it to various events without lugging around a big computer!