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R. J. SmytheAdvanced Arduino Techniques in Sciencehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6784-4_1

1. Arduino and Raspberry Pi

Richard J. Smythe1  
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Wainfleet, ON, Canada
 

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, ...

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