On 02/26/2016 09:18 AM, AndyW wrote:
On 25/02/2016 08:47, gareth G4SDW GQRP #3339 wrote:
For those that are already the au fait cognoscenti, which
is a good starter kit to go with for amateur radio dabbling?

I'd be especially interested in lots of digital and analogue I/O

My background is that I've always been happiest with naked machines
so have not investigated the world of built-in OS and language before.

I prefer the raspberry pi to arduino as it has IMO a lot more ready made
projects.
Arduino is good if you are happy with C and C++, the Pi gives you Java,
python... in fact just about any language you can name.
Arduino wins out on peripherals, the 'shields' provide a lot in
connectivity with the real world.

If you buy a pi then within a few minutes of taking it out of the box
you can have a wspr beacon up and running (a bit longer if you want a
nice clean sinusoidal signal). Great for testing your antenna and the
propagation.


Andy
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1) The Arduino is a microcontroller circuit board with input and output
pins ,but cannot be loaded with an Operating System .

2) The Raspberry Pi is a computer capable of being loaded with an
Operating System . It also has a number of I/O pins.

NB ; The Pi version 3 ,model B ,recently launched ,has an ARM quad
processor 64 bit and 1 GB RAM .........a lot of computing power for
GBP 30.- ,.....fantastic !

Frank GM0CSZ / KN6WH in IO87AT