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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Similar products exist, but I don’t think any of the others have quite the same level of official and community documentation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I haven't looked into it in years but Arduino used to be pretty similar.

[–] 0x0 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Arduino is a microcontroller, Rpi is a SoC that runs an OS... quite different.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Similar situation. Arduino made microcontrollers accessible to the masses like raspberry made low cost computing accessible.