How to Install WaveShare 3.5 Inch LCD on Raspberry Pi 4
How to Install WaveShare 3.5 Inch LCD on Raspberry Pi 4
Hey! I hope you all are doing great in this pandemic or lockdown period. I know this has been really difficult and that we might not get what to do. But if you are a technology enthusiast and really involved in new technology, then you are in the right place.
So, here today I am going to tell you how to install Waveshare 3.5 inch LCD touchscreen to your Raspberry Pi 4.
Interfacing a Touchscreen LCD with a Raspberry Pi is very useful as this setup can be used to develop Raspberry Pi based stand-alone systems like Weather Monitoring Stations, Security Systems, and Camera Interfacing, etc.
Adding a Touchscreen to your Raspberry Pi opens up doors to a lot of projects as well as increases the portability of the system.
Having a nice LCD Display on your Raspberry Pi can allow us to make complex projects like a media center, PC, smartphone, tablet, etc. There are different types of Touchscreen LCDs available in the market today for Raspberry Pi from different manufacturers with different screen sizes, resolutions, operable with a stylus, etc.
In this project, we will see how to set up an LCD Touchscreen on Raspberry Pi. For this project, we have chosen a WaveShare 3.5 inch RPi LCD V4 touchscreen type LCD display.
Software & OS
Beginners should start with the NOOBS (New Out Of Box Software) operating system installation manager, which gives the user a choice of an operating system from the standard distributions.
SD cards with NOOBS pre-installed should be available from any of our global distributors and resellers. Alternatively, you can download NOOBS.
Raspberry Pi OS (previously called Raspbian) is the recommended operating system for normal use on a Raspberry Pi.
You can check the Raspbian OS installation on our Getting Started Guide
It is the cutest, little display for the Raspberry Pi. It features a 3.5″ display with 480×320 16-bit color pixels and a resistive touch overlay. It’s designed to fit nicely not only to the Pi Model A or B but also works perfectly fine with the Model B+.
Features
- 480×320 resolution
- Universal 3.5” Display for the Raspberry Pi
- Compatible with Raspberry Pi A, B, A+, B+, and Pi2 versions
- Powered not only from your computer but also from your portable power