Arduino Vs Raspberry Pi

What is arduino ?

An Arduino is an open-source microcontroller development platform. In more practical words, you can use the Arduino development platform to build electronics project which can control physical things in real world like motor, fan, switch, LCDs, LEDs, etc .

Arduino platform consists two things

1. A physical programmable circuit board (often referred to as a microcontroller).
2. A software, or IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that runs on your computer, used to write and upload computer code to the physical board.

About Arduino :- The Arduino platform has become quite popular with people who are newbies and hobbyist in field of electronics. Arduino platform is build around Atmel's AVR microcontrollers. Unlike most previous programmable circuit boards, the Arduino does't need a separate piece of hardware (called a programmer) in order to load new code onto the board – you can simply use a USB cable to load the code in controller. Additionally, the Arduino IDE uses a simplified version of C++, making it easier to learn to program. At the end, Arduino provides a standard functions of the micro-controller into a more accessible package. You can see arduino UNO in above title pic left.

What is Raspberry Pi ?

The Raspberry Pi is credit-card sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation comes packed with ethernet, USB, a high powered graphics engine(GPU), digital I/O ports and enough CPU power to accomplish your projects.

The short & simple answer is, a very small computer.

 Raspberry Pi consists of

1. 700Mhz ARM11 CPU
2. 512 Mb RAM
3. HDMI Output
4. Composite Video output
5. 3.5mm Audio Out jack
6. USB 2.0 Ports
7. 10/100 Ethernet Port
8. Supports XBMC
9. Broadcom VideoCore capable of full 1080p HD
10. Boots from SD Card

About Raspberry Pi :- The Raspberry Pi is a computer that plugs into your screen and a keyboard. It is a capable of doing many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing, internet surfing and games.

Difference between Arduino and Raspberry Pi

	Arduino (UNO)	Raspberry Pi(B+)
OS	Custom program	Ubuntu, Pidora, RISC OS, Raspbian, Kali Linux, etc
IDE / tool chain	Arduino IDE/ Eclipse	Open Embedded, QEMU, Sratch box, Eclipse
Programming language	Wiring based (C++)	Pythen , C, etc
Architecture	8-bit	32-bit
Processor CORE	AVR's Atmega	ARM
Speed	16 MHz	700 MHz
RAM	2 Kbyte	512 MB
ROM	32 Kbyte	SD card
ADC	6	Internally used
USB	Not available	4 in new version
Audio / Video	Not available	Stereo out, mic, HDMI, NTSC
Cost	24 $ approx	35 $ approx.

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