Running a program on an Arduino is easy, but have you tried doing it with a Pi? The Raspberry Pi is powerful enough to be a standalone computer and is also good enough to program a microcontroller.

The following is excerpted from the book Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects to Get You Started, a beginner-friendly collection of electronics projects using the low-cost Arduino board.

Firstly, when installing, make sure that you have administrative ... and this is the second time you've installed the Arduino agent on your computer, there may be an outdated installer somewhere ...

It consists of both a physical programmable development board (based on AVR series of microcontrollers) and a piece of software or IDE which runs on your computer and used to write and upload the code ...

An Arduino is a tiny computer, called a “microcontroller,” with its own programming language. Arduinos are open source, meaning that how they are made and the firmware that runs them is public ...

The Arduino Plug and Make Kit has at its core an Arduino UNO R4 board with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a built-in 12×8 LED matrix display. That board gets screwed into the prime lot on a yellow board ...