Raspberry pi computers make great hubs for home automation and their 7 touchscreens make a perfect way to display this info to the humans they re meant to serve.
Flush wall mount for raspberry pi touchscreen.
To get up and running you will need to make sure you have a few items.
I love raspberry pis tiny 35 computers the size of a set of playing cards.
One problem however is that if you want to mount one of these screens on the wall you have to run a cable somewhere else for power and mount it in such a way that it juts out.
Strato pi touch is a beautifully crafted wall mount ready industrial touch panel based on raspberry pi with aluminum bezel and chassis.
And i m cheap frugal.
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Once installed you have a professional looking 7 inch touchscreen ready to meet your iot or hardware control needs for your home or office.
The raspberry pi screen wall mount is made of 100 aluminum and is relatively simple to install.
2 set screws lock mount to bracket.
The idea is simple a wifi connected wall display for your photos calendar news weather and to do.
Aluminum pi wall mount bracket.
Most monitors have brackets available for this purpose.
Using a short hdmi lead will help to contain the cables.
The raspberry pi 7 touchscreen is an amazing affordable piece of tech.
But none of the diy mounts i found online dealt with the problem of how to flush mount it with no exposed wires.
The full project description is here.
There are many touchscreen add ons for the raspberry pi and pi zero but often without a suitable housing for wall mounting and usually with larger screen diagonals and therefore not in the compact size of a light switch or thermostat.
This project shows you how to do it using a 3 gang electrical box and a handful of 3d printed parts.
But none of the diy mounts i found online dealt with the problem of how to flush mount it with no expos.
I decided i wanted to mount one to my wall to use for home automation.
Then i stumbled on dakboard.
The raspberry pi 7 touchscreen is an amazing affordable piece of tech.
Wall mount the display now mount the monitor on your wall.
Any rpi touchscreen add on can be combined with a raspberry pi and applied to hmi use.
Here s an instructibles how to on flush mounting the official rpi touchscreen on a wall purpose built industrial touch panel system add additional features such as wall mounting kits and in some cases vesa or din rail mounting.
The pi itself is mounted behind the screen.
I found a 24 old lcd at goodwill a local thrift shop and bought it but it s been sitting unused in my garage.
I decided i wanted to mount one to my wall to use for home automation.
Flush wall mounted raspberry pi touchscreen.
This kit will allow you to install a raspberry pi computer and an official raspberry pi 7 touchscreen as a wall mounted touch controller.