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Review on Waveshare 2 8Inch RPi LCD Resolution by Jason Camarillo

Revainrating 3 out of 5

Right idea. and only 4 fps?

What should be a fantastic device has the downside that when connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W the display can only show around 4 frames per second out of the box. To add insult to injury, there isn't much documentation on how to deal with this limitation. I've spent several hours on 3rd party forums discussing this particular screen. Most of the discussion revolved around editing obscure settings in the boot-config.txt file, so sacrifice color depth for speed. There was much confusion as to what exactly each setting did. Unfortunately, none of the answers fit on my screen. The screen is bright and beautiful. Too bad it can't be used.

Pros
  • Rugged construction
Cons
  • No car