Thanks, that's useful, gives me a guide as to what sizes and prices are available.
I need to decide whether a full video display (like these) makes sense or whether a 20 x 4 character LCD display will do what I need.
-- Chris Green
That's a way to *control' the Pi yes, but I want a dedicted display for showing instrumentation outputs on a panel. An Android touch screen device just wouldn't quite look right on a boat instrument panel.
... or at least I don't think it would, I'll think about it! :-)
-- Chris Green
Oddly enough years an years ago the same sort of question went through my head with CRT displays. It turned out the price was actually CHEAPER for a VGA than a serial terminal, due to greater volume probably. And the machine had a vga card already so...VGA it was.
I.e. I suspect a small graphics panel will be cheaper than a character display in this case, too.
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