Similarities Between Arduino And Rspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer and The Arduino is a programmable microcontroller whose functionality depends on the way it is programmed. Comparing Arduino to raspberry pi is like comparing a calculator to a laptop. The Arduino platform is designed around a relatively low power microcontroller which provides control over hardware. Through the use of the Arduino IDE, programs (<32Kb) that can interface with a hardwareincluding switches, sensors, LCDs, other microcontrollers, the internet, etc can be developed. On the other hand Raspberry Pi is designed to function on a much higher level using ethernet, video and audio processing, large quantities of RAM and unlimited amount of storage space, they are like mini-computers. It can run complete operating systems, like Linux and Android, and develop programs within those operating systems that can control the systems functions and the IO that are made available.

Arduinoconsists of anopen-source hardware board designed around an 8-bit Atmel AVR microcontroller, or a 32-bit Atmel ARM. Its
The Arduino is in fact a low power micro-controller; not a mini-computer. A micro-controller is just a small part of what makes a computer, and only provides a subset of the functionality of the Rapsberry Pi. Although the Arduino can be programmed with small C-like applications, it cannot run a full scale operating system, whereas raspberry pi can run complete operating system like linux and android. The Raspberry Pihas Python as the main programming language, with support for BBC BASIC,C, C++, Java, Perl and Ruby. Its projects are more software based than hardware based. As it is simply a Linux computer, most projects are based around software hacks, media centres and graphics/sound and multimedia. It can however do some simple hardware control with the GPIO