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Description:
It is a neat and very useful solution for using a VGA screen / monitor with your Raspberry Pi. It is far cheaper than an HDMI to VGA adapter or similar. The VGA connection is driven natively in hardware over the GPIO pins ( using a parallel interface ) and uses around the same CPU load as the HDMI connection on board. It is capable of displaying 1080P60 VGA video with no CPU load. It is also possible to drive this interface at the same time as the HDMI connection, so a dual screen set up is also possible.
Main Features:
● The Raspberry Pi has an HDMI port to connect a display. If your monitor only has VGA, you have to use an adapter
● With 6 bits per channel
● The VGA output supports resolution from 640 x 480 up to 1920 x 1024 at 60fps
● Support for Raspberry Pi A+, Raspberry Pi B+, Raspberry Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi 2, model B, Raspberry Pi 3 model B
● Note: this add-on board uses all but 6 of the GPIO pins, so it may not be possible to use other add-on boards at the same time as the VGA adapter
● Note: the expansion board showed in the picture is not included in the package
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