raspberry pi vs arduino for nixie tube block

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In the crudest case it's just the fact that a physical loundspeaker can't actually vibrate at 1 MHz, but before that it's likely that the amplifier in the speakers will have a low pass filter anyway. You switch your digital output between 0 and 1 a lot faster than the actual analogue signal you want (in this case about 45 times faster) and let it average out somehow. The fundamental thing there is a '1 bit digital to analogue converter'. and even then, WHY WOULD I, which leads me to the obvious question: Why ON EARTH would you want to use a dog slow crippled SoC as a Desktop PC? -_. Ironic that the product I barely use except as a media server, now has a use to program the Arduino.

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I am not saying they're no good, but I just don't see the justification and hype that revolves around them, just because some folk have a sentimental daydream about 'the glory days' of the BBC Micro (which we had a room full of, at primary AND secondary school, they booted in 1 SECOND and you could make them do things with VERY little knowledge!) Limor Fried backs me up on this view: Here's some irony just this morning I installed Arduino IDE on the Pi so I can test it to see if I could (if I was ever without any of the 10+ computers I own!) use it to code for the Arduino. I've learnt AND built more projects and examples in TWO DAYS with one simple Arduino, than I have in 4 years with 4 different Raspberry Pi boards.

All this stuff about Linux and images will have kids wondering 'Okay, but what IS Linux? Why do I need THAT? I want to make an LED flash and control my motor' - by the time they get to step #11, I can imagine many being extremely disillusioned and put off, not to mention having forgotten what they even set out to achieve.

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Raspberry Pi way to learn coding (a few barriers) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1/ Buy the Pi (£20-35) 2/ Buy an SD card (and reader, maybe) hope your SD card is compatible (okay, most are) - £4-20 (ballpark) 3/ Buy a PSU (never ASSUME - another £5) 4/ Choose an OS image, download it 5/ Learn how to flash an IMG to SD card 6/ Setup the Linux environment - a HUGE assumption is made that children and parents will be able to do this 7/ Learn how to update it, how to install packages (a day in itself!) 8/ Realise you need an HDMI cable and don't have one, spend another £5 (never ASSUME) 9/ Learn BASH basics, you DO need to learn this, another week! 10/ Learn a translated, inefficient language - Python 11/ Realise that you could have blinked an LED with an arduino FAR more cheaply and quickly ( ) 12/ Resign your Pi to a DLNA server, and realise that all the crap about it being a worthy Desktop computer is utterly laughable and hugely optimistic, at BEST In summary, I think the bare bones, instant boot of the Arduino and the more C-like approach is a FAR better way to learn. Needs: £3.50-5.00 ish (for a clone), a breadboard (£2?) and some basic loop and functional learning, and possible soldering fundamentals.

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I think what stops the Pi being as simple, immediate and as basic as it gets is EXACTLY what enables the Arduino as a more immediate, nuts and bolts way of learning: Arduino way to learn coding (simpler, in my opinion, and what the Pi foundation should aspire to follow as a model: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1/ You pick up the Arduino 2/ You plug it in, install drivers (trivial), download and run the IDE, write some code, flash it in and you're up and running.

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I am a very experienced Linux user, and I just let it sit there and download BBC TV for me and serve it over DLNA - anything I could possibly learn which depends on the Pi as a whole, would require me to rely on them to supply R/Pi units for anything I needed to manufacture, whereas an Arduino would lead to what exists as it's heart - an AVR - I can flash my code into those, and move them onto my product and begin making and shipping them without the extra cost and need to depend on 'the foundation' - never mind the politics of not being able to examine what makes the Broadcom SoC tick, bare metal. HAPPEN - wake up, Pi foundation, for goodness sake. I've owned 4 Raspberry Pi boards - I currently own the Pi 2 and Pi 2, and I think a LOT of it is wishful thinking and hype on the part of their 'foundation', including all this pie in the sky about it being a way to relive the days of the BBC Micro - NOT.

Raspberry pi vs arduino for nixie tube block