Anyone good with Raspberry Pi?

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Anyone good with Raspberry Pi?

Post by whererusteve » Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:30 am

I've got an installation this year that I'd like to program some lighting to, just wondering if anyone can point me to some good resources for using raspberry pi. thanks!
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Re: Anyone good with Raspberry Pi?

Post by BBadger » Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:41 am

Raspberry Pis are great, no doubt, but you've gotta get in the mode of programming for a micro Linux system, not so much a simple microcontroller like an Arduino or PIC. First figure out if you really need the power of a Raspberry Pi. Do you need its TCP/IP networking? The ability to login to it like a computer? The interface to a video screen? Its large amount of RAM? The fast processor? Or will something more microcontroller-ish be more suitable, like a Teensy 3.x? Or even a simple Arduino platform type system? If you want the power of a Raspberry Pi, but with more IOs, maybe you'd rather be using a BeagleBone?
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Re: Anyone good with Raspberry Pi?

Post by otakup0pe » Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:05 am

Define "good"

Our art used a raspberry pi and I wired some stuff up to the GPIO. What are you trying to do ? Like BBadger says, if you are doing basic lighting and don't plan on tweaking it much wh ile out there then an Arduino may be better.
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Re: Anyone good with Raspberry Pi?

Post by theCryptofishist » Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:37 pm

More of a Rho sort of fish...
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