“If a miniature screen is what you need, then this is ideal. I didn't have much luck with the B model Pi, but hope over experience etc and I thought to try the B+ with this screen so as to remove HDMI links and untested monitors from the equation.
Either that or Adafruit's excellent distribution of the Pi image have made for a seamless install. I can now experiment/learn/play with the Pi as it was intended.
I'd rather use the bigger screen of an RDP, VNC or SSH connection for general use, but the PiTFT screen is perfect when a local connection is wanted.
It all just works, which is a refreshing change in my experience.”
“The pre-assembled Adafruit PiTFT 2.8 touchscreen for the Raspberry Pi, is an add on board that simply can be inserted on the Pi and with a few lines to install the necessary software it simply works. The only soldering required is if you want to add some tiny buttons to it, which actually look good and can be very useful for some automated actions.
The Raspberry pi basically looks great with this tiny screen.
The 2.8" touchscreen resolution is surprisingly good, the display has sharp colors good contrast, the letters easily read.
The touch capabilities are ok for big icons or links but you still need a keyboard to type, there is a program XStroke that can be used to type by drawing the letters in the full screen, but it is difficult to get the letters right so it could take very long to type a single command line.
The quality would be equivalent to watch videos or similar things with as little interaction as possible. So when you buy this product you need to ask yourself, how many of these activities with little typing interaction I actually do in my raspberry pi? and how often.”
“I purchased this along with a Pi. When I received it, discovered this screen was for the old Model B Pi not the B+ as ordered.
Fortunately I still have an old Model B Pi to use.
Setup was easy enough using the script from Adafruit.
But, using it is not easy. It shows the desktop fine, but disables the HDMI output so this is the only display (apart from VNC)
Opening anything on the display only shows the top left hand corner, with scroll bars and button inaccessible to even close windows.
It is designed for custom software I guess, but it needs writing before testing on the display.”
“I followed the setup instructions and within a hour I had it running - including a bluetooth keyboard to connect to the console. I was surprised to see the smoothness of video playback, thought the SPI would not allow for such frame rate. The connector that passes all GPIOs further on is a great idea.”
