Arduino vs Raspberry PI

Indeed so. I've learnt a few fundamentals over the years... For example, when you don't understand something fully you'll tend to over complicate matters and then create new jargon to try and explain what's going on. Then when put under pressure you'll grab the best thing you can find (like a sledgehammer) to solve the problem you don't fully understand (like cracking a nut) and then spend as much time as you can planning and over engineering the problem solving process (usually involves plenty of plans/presentations and project management reports) to make sure no one has spotted the bluff.

But, like you say, every now and then you create something called art, which when you look at again years later is a simple easy to understand masterpiece.

Simple is ideal!

As a College instructor, I would advise students assigned projects to design the minimum to meet requirements. Adding enhancements to improve the wow factor of the project was good if you delivered on the requirements. Just getting a project to meet the requirements got you full marks. Not meeting the requirements but having lots of bells and whistles earned you disappointment.

Complexity is mentally inefficient. It takes up mental capacity that could be used to store other stuff, like why did I go to the basement. As I furthered my career I had more and more stuff to retain. There was an professional expectation and much more a personal expectation that you could recall the what and why you had done something.

I found a drawing the other day on created  some twenty years ago on DS1 signals. The drawing was motivated by needing to retain how DS1 signal were created from an analogue signal and then multiplexed into larger and larger signal. The drawing is simple. I can look at it and recall the problem and the solution.

Hope you're not suggesting that a person should always adjust their problem to fit a preferred or familiar solution. Somehow, I seem to start with "what's my power requirement?" then move on from there.

Mind you, I am a bit like colporteur but must be further down that path of keep it simple because that's all my grey matter can handle. So I tend to start with an MCU and stick with that unless it's absolutely necessary to switch to a more complex MPU.

Happens to all of us .. I have gotten up off the couch walked into the Kitchen no clue what my intentions were. Im guessing I just was in desperate need of the exercise.

I have to laugh, none of the self help memory book work.

It is frustrating getting to the basement and ng to remember why I went there. It the multitasking thing I think. From the main floor to the basement is at least ten seconds. If I use the ten seconds to think about it maybe a solution to the conflict in the middle east might come to me. Oh, why did I go downstairs again?

I was trying not to laugh but I'm sorry I don't know what came over me. IM with ya bro

Hummm I didn't vote but felt a comment was more appropriate. Microcontroller vs microprocessor. I have used both. I focus primarily on Raspberry Pi. Not that it is better but rather my limited mental capacity for investment. I wish my facilities could support what it did twenty years ago but alas it is proven not the capable. I focus on the Pi but known it is overkill for some of the projects.

Thank you

Thank you

The 2 platforms are quite different even though there are many variants of each. Clearly there are many different applications where one or the other would be much better suited to the task. Generally Pi's are better for more complex projects heavy on software and graphics and Arduino is better at smaller projects with lots of hardware interfacing.

However there are many applications that can be done by either platform and for these I would almost always choose an Arduino because it is going to be a smaller, more portable device with shorter development and lower power consumption.

I think of the Pi as occupying a niche between the massive microcontroller market and the gigantic PC market. That niche can be expanded into ether big market, but not too far before it is clearly not the best solution. Of course that "little" niche still has a sweet spot with millions of cool potential applications in it.