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jimwildman · 08-02-2016, 08:49 PM

i use a board called a picuino it has a port that accepts many bluetooth or 2.4 ghz wireless devices, even nrf2401 if your into the internet of things.

they are around $10 and tiny. maybey a third the size of an arduino uno. they can run on a button cell..

i use rasberrys for lots of things but its overkill for the stuff you mentioned. and lacks io once you add a screen or other boards to it.. that said there are gpio boards available..

it depends how far you want to go. i like to size the machine for the job at hand.

but if your looking for a development platform for future mods then it makes more sense..

coding the rasberry is much more involved, where the arduino platform has many examples to gleen info from. c code is easy, i find myself using perl and python alot on the rasberry pi.

08-02-2016, 08:49 PM	#14
jimwildman Join Date: May 2016 Posts: 237	i use a board called a picuino it has a port that accepts many bluetooth or 2.4 ghz wireless devices, even nrf2401 if your into the internet of things. they are around $10 and tiny. maybey a third the size of an arduino uno. they can run on a button cell.. i use rasberrys for lots of things but its overkill for the stuff you mentioned. and lacks io once you add a screen or other boards to it.. that said there are gpio boards available.. it depends how far you want to go. i like to size the machine for the job at hand. but if your looking for a development platform for future mods then it makes more sense.. coding the rasberry is much more involved, where the arduino platform has many examples to gleen info from. c code is easy, i find myself using perl and python alot on the rasberry pi.
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