![]() The main reason being are you going to want to use a kitchen sink board capable of streaming HD video to blink a couple of LEDs in a pattern? Arduino is much more flexible when it comes to developing low"er" power (you can do lower with MSP430s), simpler projects. I don't believe the Raspberry PI is going to replace Arduino. I agree with a most of the comments here. However, products like the Beagle Bone are going to suffer, perhaps seriously.īeing someone who has to deal with this quite a bit in my line of work. I don't think the costs of either Arduino's or Rasberri Pi's will change much. This also gets the Broadcom CPU into the hand of a lot of people who may use it on other dedicated projects.įinally, the open manufacturing concept allows anyone to do production runs, knowing that in the short term they are going to sell out quickly with zero advertising or marketing, so there is little to no risk on a large production run even when the per-unit markup is rather small. So a lot of the profits get rolled back into Broadcom through the purchase of their CPUs. ![]() It is also worth noting that that the board was designed by a Broadcom employee to use a Broadcom chip. When you can spread this fixed cost out over 100,000 units instead of 1,000, the per-unit price drops even further. ![]() When doing production runs, the big cost is in setting up the line. Furthermore the ARM market is hugely competitive at the moment, driving prices down even further. They are just huge when you jump from 1 to 1000 to 10,000 to 100,000. Just take a look at the volume discounts on chips. When it comes to electronics, price has far less to do with capabilities than it does in volume. This is a much better comparison.īut there is more. You could opt for cheaper boards, though (it's open source).Īs per another thread here recently, Arduinos can be had for under $11. Arduino is (a tad bit) more expensive because you are also paying for the idea. TLDR RPi is cheaper because it wasn't designed for drop-in embedded development, and RPi is a charity. With the RPi, you're paying a minimal amount for the hardware, because afaik, the RPi project was originally started as a project to help the less fortunate have easier and cheaper access to PCs - the design cost for them is extremely low, as they had a lot of help from educational organizations. What I'm saying is that the purpose isn't just semantics, and what they're intended for has as much to do with the price as anything.Īnother huge difference is, with the Arduino, we're paying for the cost of designing the thing, as well as the dev environment and hardware. ![]() But, you could say this for the Arduino as well - the design is open source, and there are cheaper, 20$ clones out there. Granted, the RPi may have available, in the future, development "images" that you can use as drop-ins, or drivers developed by the community, thereby eliminating the setup time. The RPi doesn't have drivers for any of those inputs you mentioned (yet), and reconfiguring it may need some JTAG magic. The small difference in amount they may have (I think around 20$) isn't more than worth your time in setting an RPi up for embedded development. The Arduino is set up for development the RPi isn't. ![]()
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