[Informatics] Arduino or Pi?

[Roland Gesthuizen]

Going to mess with your head and toss the Micro:bit onto the table. All are good but for different reasons depending on what you want to do and when you are doing it and what students have to work on this. Why not buy a class set of them all?

My inclination is now to build course starting first with the Micro:bit starting with the blocky coding and tutorials but dive in deep towards MicroPython. For students who don’t even have a computer, they can work with the online emulators. The support with this board is excellent.

From there you can branch off to the Arduino (cheap but bigger learning curve) and Raspberry Pi (more expensive but more powerful) but when you reach that point, you can allow students to branch off to explore one with an open, inquiry based project where they negotiate the project with you (Wearable digital hat? Arduino .. Thing that shares data via a web page? Perhaps Raspberry Pi etc.)

Interested to hear what others think .. 

Regards Roland
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Roland GESTHUIZEN
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> On 13 Jul 2020, at 2:11 pm, Stephen Trouse <Stephen.Trouse at flinders.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> Hi all/Roland
> I’m after a bit of help.  I want to buy some single board computers for my STEM course, and I’m tossing up between Arduino and Raspberry Pi.  Which so you think is a better choice?  Which has better support?
> Hope you’re well,
> Stephen
> 

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