Arduino and Raspberry Pi

Arduino is the name originally given, in 2005, to an Italian educational project intended to teach physical computing to industrial and commercial design students who did not have an electronics background. Raspberry Pi is the name given, in 2012, to a British educational project aiming to create a single-board computer that could be used to introduce basic computer science in the early phases of childhood education. In both projects, the creators reasoned that by offering very low-cost hardware, more students would have access to computer science and physical computing. As the two educational projects developed far beyond what was imagined possible at the time of their inceptions and introductions, the names have come to represent the hardware boards extensively in use today. Although both Arduino and Raspberry Pi were teaching concepts, they are very different devices with different purposes that display some overlapping capabilities. Each device is uniquely suited to its designed purpose.