learning some basics

[er...@hawaii.rr.com]

Aloha Maui Makers,

 HI Everybody! I'm following, just haven't spoken up in a while. This is Erik In Kihei.

I am hoping someone can give me some basic definitions please.

How are these boards different?:

~Arduino board

~Raspberry Pi

~EBB (EiBotBoard)

Thanks,

~E

[Anil Mehta]

Arduino is a full system microprocessor which is set for I/O with
sensors (http://arduino.cc/)

RaspberryPi is a full fledged computer, little more than a
microprocessor, with complete processing capabilities
(http://www.raspberrypi.org/)

hope this helps.

-A

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[Jerry Isdale]

Aloha Erik

On Feb 24, 2013, at 11:13 AM, er...@hawaii.rr.com wrote:

I am hoping someone can give me some basic definitions please.

How are these boards different?:

~Arduino board

~Raspberry Pi

~EBB (EiBotBoard)

Arduino  http://arduino.cc/

  An open hardware, general purpose microcontroller based on the AMTEL AVR series.

A number of official variants from Arduino, as well as a plethora of clones that run off the Arduino IDE (open source)

Some have lots of I/O capability, others more limited.  

Its a good place for beginners to embedded systems. Experts will be frustrated by the IDE and other sw but happy to learn it is easy enough to get down to the silicon easily.

Lots of applications can be built off the arduino + 'shields' (daughter boards).  Most are open source/hardware.

EBB - http://www.schmalzhaus.com/EBB/

 a PIC chip based controller originally designed for Eggbot.  Drives two stepper motors with hardware shipped.

more limited controller than Arduino (PIC vs Avr) but quite serviceable.  

development requires a bit more experience

Raspberry Pi  http://www.raspberrypi.org/ 

A complete ARM based Linux System On A Chip (SoC)… has HDMI, ethernet, usb host, etc

MUCH more powerful than either of the other systems, but is NOT great at hardware control (at which others excel)

It has 8 general purpose IO (GPIO) ports but shortly you want to pair it with one of the other (AVR/PIC) boards to do more.