The folks at Raspberry Pi have actually revealed a brand-new touchscreen element for individuals utilizing boards to produce mini touchscreen home appliances: The 5-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is a 720p IPS multi-touch screen that’s natively supported by the Raspberry Pi OS and consists of installing holes on the back to make it simple to develop incorporated all-in-one gadgets.

The brand-new screen will cost $40 and is readily available beginning today from Pi resellers like CanaKit, Vilros, and PiShop (though a few of those merchants currently note it a little above the MSRP).

“Its capacitive touch screen works out of the box with full Linux driver support—no manual calibration required, no hunting through device trees, and no wrestling with incompatible touch controllers,” composes Raspberry Pi software application CTO Gordon Hollingworth in the business’s post.

The 5-inch touchscreen is a smaller sized equivalent to the $60 7-inch Pi Touch Display 2 that the business released late in 2015. The 2 screens have the exact same 720p resolution, however the 7-inch design has somewhat larger seeing angles (85 degrees, compared to 80 degrees for the 5-inch screen). Both work with all Pi boards from 2014’s Raspberry Pi 1 B+ onward– with the exception of the Raspberry Pi Zero– and they utilize power from the board’s GPIO header and a display screen signal provided by means of a ribbon cable television linked to the boards’ DSI port.