W hile Arduino and its libraries are the quickest way to interface with a sensor and blink an LED, sometimes you shouldn’t have to write and compile code to do something exceptionally simple.

An Arduino is a microcontroller — a single board designed to control something and perform a specific task. Unlike a ...

Unveiled in 2005, Arduino boards don't have the CPU horsepower of a Raspberry Pi. They don't run a full PC operating system either. Arduino isn't obsolete, though—in fact, its plethora of ...

Unlike Raspberry Pi, Arduino boards are micro-controllers, not full computers. They don’t run an entire operating system but simply execute written code interpreted by their firmware.

Fascinated with electronic projects and want to build your own? Arduino boards can most definitely help with that. These microcontroller boards are designed to send and receive data to and from ...

opening the doors to a slew of other applications that the Arduino just can't undertake out of the box. As stated before, the Raspberry Pi can run a full operating system, which is Linux in most ...

If so, Make Projects user Clement Storck built a simple Arduino powered notification system that sends him a text message and an email with a photo every time someone rings the doorbell.

The system uses both an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi alongside a ton of various sensors to monitor the house. You can set up the system to send you alerts when something happens or just monitor ...