Hi, todays VS. Post i will talk about what device is best for your project, arduino based boards or raspberry pi like single board computers, Let's Get Started!
Arduino:
What is arduino? Arduino is a development board that you can program it with a pc,
But How? It's simple! You need to go arduino.cc and download latest version of arduino IDE (Note: some of the sketchs on the internet like can't be compiled with latest version), the language uses the arduino is c++ based language for arduino.
Is There Any Other Boards Made By Arduino? Of course! Some of the boards are mega has more pins or yun an iot device.
More Information About Arduino : http://arduino.cc
Raspberry PI:
What Is RaspberryPI? Raspberry pi is a single board computer for building projects and robots.
How It's Works?! Simple! First you need to go http://raspberrypi.org and download the latest version of resbian image, and flash it to a micro SD card And then put it into the pi than connect all the cables to the pi and then power it up! And then you Can program it with python node.js and other languages.
Is There Any Other Models? Yes! There is model A, A+, B, B+, 2, 3, and the zero.