new toy coming for DYI instrumentation, the Arduino Q

[Lady_C]

Linux powered, programming in C++ or Python.
Clearly a Raspberry competitor.

https://www.arduino.cc/product-uno-q/

[barcoMeCasa]

Looks like a capable little board but seems unlikely to be a competitor to RPIs apart from those that like fiddling with tech. Which is not a bad thing..

No software, looks like i2c, 1wire etc sensor data needs to go through the arduino side first. Openplotter is no contest the best game in town for the Pi, constantly maintained and rock solid. 5 minutes finger on mouse time to up and running. Also looks like the various AIS & n2k etc in/out Hats won't fit the footprint. Will the BLE signalk apps work to get data from the various victron etc devices? Might but prob not.
So despite being very fond of arduino (who have just been bought by qualcom) the mighty Pi looks to rule the roost for a long time to come out in the real world. It just works day in day out

[CatLove]

A me too board that's too late .
In my view Arduino have lost their ways a long time ago.


Too much hardware diversification at stupidly high prices and exponentially increasing complexity. Platform instability doesn't inspire confidence to beginner developers.


People who want Linux have the Pi , in 2 form factors, the regular and the compute module. These have a guaranteed life cycle so you can design a product around the board knowing that it is available 5 years into the future, even after new generation products are released.


People who want lower prices and don't care about guaranteed availability 3 years into the future have a multitude of choices, bananapi, orangepi , nanopi etc.


The entry level low end of this market has been eaten by stuff like ESP32 and Uno rev 3 clones sold at below 10% of genuine Uno prices.


These newer Arduino sbc's with development kits costing more than Nvidia Jetson devkits make no senso to me.


I've seen similar ideas in the past, for example I have a LattePanda V1 of about 10 years ago that combined a Windows and Linux sbc with an Arduino in a board about the same size as a raspi.
2 years into the project my clients decided to switch to a Raspberry Pi.

[MikeKolling]

Or even better the Orange Pi either Zero or the OP 5 Pro, which are 2-3 times faster than the RPI and handle heat better...