I have been playing with a new rev2 Raspberry PI, 512M RAM, etc. I have done a couple projects on the Arduino. Neither one of these systems seems to be a good general purpose hobby platform.
The Arduino is good for I/O and control, but lacks real computing power to do advanced embedded projects.The Raspberry PI has a good amount of processing, but lacks the I/O to do what the arduino can do. While it is obvious that the Arduino and PI have different objectives, I see the Arduino with a much broader application space. The PI seems far too limited for its potential capabilities. The high level Linux hints at really advanced projects, but the lack of I/O and expandability make them very hard to accomplish. You have all the overhead of a full blown Linux, but without the memory or processing power. So, on the surface, the PI seems like a cool idea, but it is hard to think of an actual project where it really is a good fit. A Raspberry PI that fits Arduino Shields, maybe that's what's missing. _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
