Mini eBay monitor

Last week I ordered a 7" HDMI/VGA/Composite monitor from an 'Australian' seller 'Globedealmark' for about $64 including postage. It comes as a bare PCB and LCD module with no documentation so they expect you to mount it in a case etc yourself.

Screen, controller and user controls

The board requires 12V DC at about 1amp. I first tried it on an old Windows 7 laptop using the VGA interface and a screen resolution of 1366x768 scaled automatically to the monitors native 800x480 pixels. It looks very good!

VGA input from laptop at 1366x768

Then I fired up the pcDuino Nano3 ARM board and tried that via HDMI. This time I set the resolution to match the display and the result is very nice.

Native 800x480 via HDMI

This is the combination I intend to use, mounted in a briefcase along with some SDR hardware. Altogether a good buy I think!

800x480

I forgot to mention that the display supports a reversed composite input for a car reversing camera etc too. Very hand all round.