How to Install 3.5 LCD on Raspberry Pi

Mabuhay! Darwin here,

In this video I will show you How to install a 3.5 LCD Screen on a Raspberry Pi. In this project you can make a lot project because it will make raspberry pi more portable and easy to carry than plug it to an external monitor.

Materials that we need here are:

· Raspberry Pi | https://goo.gl/3e6Rgp

· 3.5 LCD Screen | https://goo.gl/q8SLmG

· LCD Driver | https://goo.gl/2JDp2Y

First before we get start you must already have installed the Raspian OS or your prepared Operating System on the Raspberry Pi SD card.

Note: the driver that I will use is booting from the HOME DIRECTORY of the operating system so if you try to run the driver in Noobs it will not work.

Let’s put the LCD Screen on the Raspberry Pi GPIO pin.

Now download the driver of lcd screen and save it to an usb flash drive and insert it to the rpi, then paste the driver file to home/pi/ directory.

Driver installation

1. Open the terminal and type the following commands aftrer you typed th commands the machine will reboot and run on the lcd screen and not from the monitor:

tar xvf LCD-show-151020.tar.gz

cd LCD-show/

sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

sudo cp ./waveshare35a-overlay.dtb /boot/overlays/

sudo cp -rf ./etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf-35 /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-calibration.conf

sudo cp -rf ./usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/

sudo cp ./cmdline.txt /boot/

sudo cp ./inittab /etc/

sudo cp ./boot/config-35.txt /boot/config.txt

sudo reboot

2. After system rebooting, the RPi LCD is ready to use.