I recently purchased a 7" touchscreen LCD with a driver board and I'm trying to figure out how to get it hooked up to my Raspberry Pi 3. Here's the driver board and my Pi: My main questions are as follows:
My expectation here is that I hook the LCD to the driver board via the ribbon cable, then the driver board to the Pi via an HDMI cable. There does not seem to be any way to hook up the LCD to the Pi directly. Does this seem correct?
Do I need to supply the LCD driver board with its own power? Or is there a way to set it up such that it gets power from the Pi?
What the hell is this thing for (it came with the LCD and the driver board )?