[HH] Arduino and Raspberry PI

[markw at mohawksoft.com]

As a follow up. There is an Arduino Shield Bridge, but this costs almost
twice as much as an aduino and alamode is an Arduino that plugs into the
GPIO plug of the Raspberry PI.


> 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.
>
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