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Raspberry Pi. Should I buy it?

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Well, I have just discovered the amazing world of electronic devices and I would like to begin with some basic equipments and machines. So for that reason, I would llike to know if buying a rapberry pi could be the best way to start or it will be really complex for a beginner. Thanks for the answer, I hope you could help me and give me some advices and ideas.

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    I'd probably recommend a Pi over an Arduino for all levels of programming experience.

     

    The Pi can be use for a variety of languages giving a broad range of choice as to how you get started. Scratch and Python are available from within the GUI.

    To use the more complex languages requires more in-depth knowledge (but hopefully the person using those languages will know enough to be able to access them).

     

    Arduino for projects with tight timing concerns, drastically low weight requirements or Analogue inputs.

    Pi for projects which need lots of complex computation, sound or video.

     

    The Pi can get analogue values with an ADC but it will often be simpler to use an Arduino to handle the ADC requirements of the project..

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    I agree with you Doug. Despite what the common sense seems suggesting, I think that starting from a "evolved" machine like the PI and then in a process of self-knowledge, digging down to low level machines it is more helpful than starting from something apparently "easier".

    IMO, as much a hardware is simple (i.e. Arduino, PIC, and so on) as much it is complex to understand it and manage it as well.

     

    Enrico

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