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Re:Today is Arduino Day by freehunter on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:16PM (#9283750)
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.

Re:Today is Arduino Day by schappim on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:26PM (#9283764)
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.

Re:Today is Arduino Day by schappim on Sunday March 29, 2015 @04:45PM (#9286411)
I meant to say here 'no Arduino like analog in pins'...
Re:Today is Arduino Day by pen2l on Saturday March 28, 2015 @11:26PM (#9283765)
Well, they are two very different things. One is basically a computer, the other a microcontroller.
Re:Today is Arduino Day by snarfy on Sunday March 29, 2015 @12:36AM (#9283891)
> But for many projects, it just doesn't matter.

If it doesn't matter, then why pick one over the other? Why not go with the uno over the rpi? It doesn't matter, right?