I'm still confused about the display

[Mike Katz]

I am in the process of assembling my PiDP-1 and I have seen two
different ways of mounting the 7" display.

One way is in the wholes in between the speakers and the other say is to
mount it where the paper tape reader would go.

I'm not sure which is best and for the mounting in the circular holes I
haven't seen any documentation.

Any help, directions or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I am taking pre-orders for the PiDP's and Enigma Touch for
delivery at VCF Midwest in September.  If you are interested please
contact me directly at bit...@12bitsbest.com

Thank you,

              Mike

[Bill E]

AFAIK, the 'mount where the speakers go' wasn't carried forward. They are pretty small, a display would be fairly useless. I mounted mine in the big empty area of the ptp panel. I posted about it some time back. My mount involved cutting the panel and reassembling with some 3D printed bits, the display is behind the panel. It's a bit of work, though. Someone else did a front mount, he posted also.

Bill

[Malcolm Ray]

I mounted my display behind the speaker panel. I used this one:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CPBCZHB

Do you see the two tabs at the bottom, with screw holes? Those neatly
locate into existing slots in the console top panel (no screws needed),
supporting and positioning the display. Other than that, the display is
held in place by friction. I replaced the standoffs used between the
front and rear panels by 20mm ones, which avoided the display having a
top-to-bottom slant, and attached small self-adhesive rubber feet (the
dome kind) to the back of the aluminium strip, as bumpers for the top
of the display panel to rest against. Attaching the HDMI cable was
quite tight, and using a right-angled male-to-female HDMI adapter
helped (the kind that turns sideways, rather than up or down, if you
see what I mean).

Locating the display behind the panel like this limits the usable
display area, but on the other hand it's less visually obtrusive than
attaching it to the front. It's an aesthetic choice, so there's no
objectively wrong or right way to do it. And of course you can do
without a display entirely, if you so choose.

[Oscar Vermeulen]

The original idea (the standard idea) is to mount the 7" display behind the center two speaker holes. There's a ledge the display can sit on, a bracket that holds it in place. The bracket will be too deep (it needs to fit a variety of displays), so you can either make it thinner by using a single hex spacer to mount the bracket (which doubles as the speaker mount) instead of the standard two (which gets you 'deeper, double depth'). Or just use something to fill out the empty space behind the display to press it against the speaker panel.

Another idea - didn't know anyone did this already - could be to let it be a rectangular slot in the paper take panel. Needs some DIY cutting!

And re Bill's comment: yes - you get two rather small circular displays when mounting the display behind the speaker holes. It's fine through my eyes: one speaker hole is taken up by papertape reader/punch, the other by the Type 30. The GUI window allows you to shift and size the various things so they exactly fit *your* mounted display. But indeed - you get a tiny Type 30.

(an upcoming update of the software will let you connect multiple Type 30s all showing the same output. So one is for the demo on the rack display, a second one may run on your laptop with the web display. A third one could be a big monitor... But I run ahead of myself here, still a few days till the update is pushed out!. Bill indicated he's inclined to adopt the same small code change to pidp1-mods. Which I hope, because that is the version I am using myself...)

Too long a reply. Just to say: soon you can have the tiny Type 30 in the rack (the 7" display peering through the speaker portholes) AND a full-size Type 30 on your laptop AND a full-size Type 30 on your second monitor. 

Kind regards,

Oscar.