On 09/01/17 15:00, Alan Corey wrote:
1860NX). So even if ones budget doesn't run to an HDMI monitor or TV, there's a fair number of these on eBay.The best deal on a cheap HDMI monitor I've been able to find is actually a TV. It has HDMI, VGA, RCA type analog video inputs. It has a DVD drive tucked in behind the screen, you can plug a USB memory stick or SD card into it to view pictures or play MP3s. And it runs on 12 volts: comes with a wall wart and I think also a cord with a cigarette lighter plug, but it has a standard 2.1 or 2.5 mm coaxial power input jack.
I've got a big 4K TV here (replacing my earlier experiments with xdmx etc.) but after possibly a year's use there's definitely degradation of the pixels or underlying active elements. By comparison, both a Philips monitor and my old NEC are rock-solid. It /definitely/ needs config.txt magic, which is a PITA if I have to move RPis around. So that philosophy is workable, but one needs to budget for a replacement.
I bought some of those covers for the logitek k-360 keyboards, but the form fitted to the keys stuff could turn inside out and would hold a key down. It was much worse than just being carefull. This was on a medium
Logitech should have stuck to selling compilers.
Have you considered a touch screen? https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-touch-display/ That's smallish at 7 inches but one-piece computer-monitor combos are all the rage on alibaba. A capacitive keyboard doesn't need to be much more than 2 spirals for each "key" etched as printed circuit traces.
I want an APL keyboard. One of those controlling CAM kit would be decidedly cool :-)
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