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| What’s the difference? Arduino vs Raspberry |
Arduino and Raspberry Pi are a type of electronic platform where we can access and control any electronic components and gadgets. They both are very popular and mostly used in projects which deal with sensors and robots. In this post, we are going to know about how the Arduino and Raspberry Pi are different from each other and which one is more superior and often why they are compared to each other.
Arduino:-
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| Arduino UNO |
Arduino is an electronic board that is used to just control the electronic components, That’s it. By Arduino we can control wifi modules, Bluetooth modules, motors, sensors, and lights which are used for building robots. Arduino Uno has 14 digital input/output pins (out of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog input pins, a USB connection, A Power barrel jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. There’s a chip in Arduino which is also known as Heart of the Ardunio is Microcontroller. These microcontroller chips are created by Texas Instrument. The microcontroller will have everything in it. They can write, read, run and execute programs right within the chip itself. The battery consumption of Arduino board is less, It can also be operated at 9volts battery.
Arduino has different types of boards, totally there are 26 different types of boards are available in Arduino boards.
- Arduino Nano
- Arduino Uno
- Arduino Due
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Arduino Mega 2560
- Arduino Mega
- Lilly pad Arduino Simple
- Lilly Pad Arduino Main Board
- Arduino Pro
- Arduino Ethernet
- Arduino Yún
- Arduino Zero
- Arduino Pro Mini
- Arduino Micro
- Arduino Leonardo
- Arduino Esplora
- Arduino M0 Pro
- Arduino Duemilanove
- Arduino Fio
- Arduino 101
- Arduino Ethernet
- Arduino Diecimila
- Arduino BT
- Arduino MKR Zero
- Arduino MKR 1000
- Arduino Uno WiFi
- Arduino Portenta H7
And to add more components and to make room for them separate attaching peripherals are used which are known as Shields. These can be easily set up on the top of Arduino to add modules over it. Even though microcontrollers are self-contained you still have to connect it to a computer in under to program it. When the uploading of a program is done Arduino acts as a standalone device. i.e., which doesn’t require any other device to work.
And the programming of Arduino can be done by using sharp C-language. There are also some third party applications by which we can give programming to Arduino which are Blockly and Python. But, the primary way for uploading a program into Arduino is by using Arduino IDE Software which was developed by Arduino company itself.
Raspberry Pi:-
Arduino uses a Microcontroller in the same way Raspberry Pi uses Microprocessor, which requires assistance from separate chips to be able to store, read, write, run, and execute code. If we say in a simple manner, the motherboard of a computer is a microprocessor which is the heart of a computer.
These computer motherboards require RAM, CPU cooling fans, graphics controller, hard drive, etc and all these separate components are required for a computer to run. Like this way shrinking all of them into a board together is Raspberry Pi. Here you know from these that different is Raspberry Pi from Arduino.
The Raspberry Pi board comprises a program memory (RAM), processor and graphics chip, CPU, GPU, Ethernet port, GPIO pins, Xbee socket, UART, power source connector. And various interfaces for other external devices. It also requires mass storage, for that we use an SD flash memory card.
As you know Raspberry Pi itself is a Mini Computer it works on Linux os. For all these separate chips it consumes more power than Arduino.
So all from these, it is very clear that it is different from Arduino but why it is often compared to Arduino, because of its I/O Pins. Same as like Arduino these pins are used to control other electronic components like motors, lights, modules, sensors, etc.
When it comes to programming Arduino need to be get programmed by another computer whereas Raspberry Pi can be directly programmed by itself because it is a computer. Python is the primary language that is used to give programming to Pi pins. Same as like Arduino there are separate peripherals that will be attached to Raspberry Pi known as Hats, which sits upon the top of I/O pins and allows you to easily add pre-made components. There are 3 different sizes in Raspberry Pi which are used according to usage.
Final Conclusion:-
If you want to do work with sensors and robotics for these types of projects buying Raspberry Pi is like an overkilling for these types of Arduino is enough. To add elements to your projects or robots like adding webcam, web servers, etc. for this you need Raspberry Pi.
For example,
Bluetooth Controlled Toy Car requires Arduino
Bluetooth Controlled Toy Car with Real-Time live stream to a server requires Raspberry Pi.
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| Bluetooth Controlled Toy Car – Arduino |
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| Bluetooth Controlled Toy Car with Real-Time live stream to a server – Raspberry Pi |
If you are a beginner then you won’t have any issues to work with Arduino, If you are advanced level and already dealing with difficult software then you don’t have any problem in using Raspberry Pi.
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