Friday, February 4, 2022

[SOLVED] Should I use Raspberry Pi or Arduino for a project with 3 or more sensors

Issue

I recently started on a project where we are trying to build a box with different sensors. As I am fairly new to this I was wondering which Hardware I should buy for this project. After doing my research, I am still not sure which one I should buy...

For this project I want to connect to the board:

  • 1 IMU (we already have the BMI085 from Bosch)
  • 2 IR Sensors (I was looking at the GP2Y0A60SZLF from Sharp)
  • 1 Camera

From what I have read, it seems the Arduino is easier to use for new programmers, however it seems that I have more flexibility with the Raspberry Pi and it is easier to connect a Camera to it.

The final goal of this Project would be to gather the data in real time from all the sensors and save it on an SD-Card. There should also be some sort of Timestap to be able to match the information from all the sensors to a specific time.

Thank you for all your help! :)

Sam


Solution

For the camera i suggest you to use raspberry because codification of video would need a lot of cpu, consider that raspberry is more like a computer and arduino is a microprocessor that can't manage huge data like the output of a camera



Answered By - starfox64bit
Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (WPSolving Admin)