[HH] Arduino and Raspberry PI

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

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.