Choosing a monitor
There’s no shortage of suitable small monitors to connect to your Pi. If you feel comfortable with a small amount of wiring, the Official Raspberry Pi 7-inch Touchscreen Display is the ideal size to display a calendar, as well as having a handy slot at the back to place your Pi. The screen, along with assembly instructions, is available from the Pi Hut website for £55 ( https://
thepihut.com). If you don’t like messy wires, the Pi Hut also sells a short micro USB power cable for £2 to allow the Pi to draw power from the monitor’s USB port.
The Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Display has the added advantage of enabling you to scroll through appointments with a click of a finger. If this is not important to you, or the display is out of your budget, Amazon and eBay also sell Pi-compatible displays. As the Pi has an HDMI port, any HDMI compatible monitor will do, but some monitors come with a driver board to allow you to connect it to the Pi’s own DSI port.
If you are very comfortable with electronics and want to save money, find a broken-down laptop with a working LCD. If you can remove the screen safely and buy a compatible controller board online, it can be made to work with the Pi. Visit www.instructables.com/id/ Old-laptop-screen-into-Monitor/ ?ALLSTEPS for some tips.