They still have effectively no RAM, though. I clicked through for the first one I saw with as much as 256kB of RAM, and it was US$35, the same price as my 1.5GHz quad-core ODroid C1, which has 1GB of RAM. I don't understand this. Is it purely a power efficiency thing?
The NUCLEO-F411RE has a product page but doesn't seem to be for sale on that site. Where can you get it?
Re:Today is Arduino Day
by freehunter on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:16PM
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The real question is, for the price of a legit Arduino Uno ($25), why would you not just go with a Raspberry Pi Model A?
edit - I know they're different. But for many projects, it just doesn't matter. Stop telling me they're different.
They're apples and oranges, and it completely depends what you're doing. RPi can be a personal computer, Arduino is most certainly not.
When you're asking yourself whether you should use a RPi or an Arduino:
RPi Cons: RPi has analogue in pins, limited PWM etc, an OS and file system you need to take into consideration when building a project.
RPi Pros: You can use pretty much whatever language (natively) you want. It's a computer. Much better support for Audio / Video built-in.
I meant to say here 'no Arduino like analog in pins'...
Well, they are two very different things. One is basically a computer, the other a microcontroller.
For example the NUCLEO-F411RE is less than half the price of an Arduino (£7 vs £17) and far higher spec (100 MHz vs 16 MHz, FPU, more pins, etc. etc. etc.) Also mBed's code is much much better.
mBed boards: http://developer.mbed.org/platforms/
NUCLEO-F411RE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=63&v=g3p6iX_RpEc