University of Cambridge theoretical physicist Damien George has built a tiny microcontroller that is more powerful than Arduino and far simpler than the Raspberry Pi. Just funded on Kickstarter ...

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Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

Raspberry Pi also has a broader selection of I/Os, such as an audio jack, more USB ports, and more. And with 40 general-purpose I/O (GPIO) pins, you can even daisy chain multiple Raspberry Pis ...