Frank VigilanteAlthough I reference The Smart Garden as an Arduino controlled project, the truth is that I still have not decided which development board I am going to use. I am still leaning towards the Arduino because I spent a lot of time working on code in the Arduino IDE to control the plant robotics, but the Edison and Pi are just so intriguing.
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The arduino certainly has the biggest community so it would be the easiest to get up and running with. But I agree, the Raspi and Edison are interesting options to experiment with. The Edison is fairly new to the game, but there has always been a struggle for developers to decide between Arduino and Raspi for a project.
Sometimes what it comes down to is the Arduino can do a lot of signal output changes quickly whereas the Raspi is somewhat slower at it. As in, if you need to switch a pin on and off really fast, the Arduino can accomplish it while the Raspi struggles. But the Raspi has its own advantages such as easy as pie connectivity (plug in a wifi adapter and boom you have wifi), you can host web servers, etc.
But now with boards like the ESP8266 being so cheap and providing a quick and easy way for an Arduino to communicate over WiFi, the Arduino solution is becoming the more popular.
Good luck, love the idea. I have been working on something eerily similar haha, but I'm in early stages.
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