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Why use Raspberry Pi? - Raspberry Pi Tutorial
From the course: IoT Projects: Physical Email Alert
Why use Raspberry Pi?
- So you might be asking yourself, why did I choose a Raspberry Pi Zero versus a full-size Raspberry Pi or even something like an Arduino? And the answer is, well yes, you can run my code on any flavor of Raspberry Pi. I'm using the Pi Zero because it has built in WiFi and it's super small and will fit right into my design here beautifully. It's also really affordable. You can get these for about 10, $15. The reason I didn't choose to use something like an Arduino is because the Arduino, although it's great and I've created over 100 videos on how to use an Arduino, it's a microcontroller. It runs a set of commands and it generally goes back and runs those set of commands again. It's a little limited on what it can do when connecting it to say, the internet, right? You have a lot of trouble with authentication, say checking Gmail and authenticating that it's you and receiving information in and out. You can connect to…
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