Oh - i don't actually know the answer to that. I'm guessing they work the same? Did you find a page that shows the differences?

Im guess they work the same the alpha is the enhanced panda and the delta is the standard, which is the one your using i think, it said its has a built in arduino like your but didnt say ill have to look farther into it i guess

comparison: https://www.dfrobot.com/blog-855.html

prices: https://www.dfrobot.com/category-177.html

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ARC is not fully supported on Linux, so maybe you should change your profile name to  "Windows Robot 92"

just kidding

Thanks ptp and i had no idea of a 8gb latte panda was out and they use the same arduino onboard chips so works for me, i guess ill stick with windows a little longer just intil synthiam releases a version of ARC and tutorials to set up on linux with all the functionalities and controls of windows ARC lol.

We’re having a hard time deciding if raspberry pi is worth continuing to support. We understand there’s a lot of pi’s out there,  but the reason not many are using them with ARC is due to the low processing capabilities and difficult OS maintenance responsibilities.

We see very very very few installations of ARC on the pi compared to windows. With low cost systems like the latte panda, and what you get compared to the pi, it’s no wonder people don’t use the pi much. ARC for Windows was downloaded 100,000 times in the last year and only a few hundred of those are for raspberry pi.

now I will say there’s a lot of hobbyists and tinkerererers playing with the pi. And they’re happy doing very light weight things with it. So I’m by no means dismissing their time dabbling with the pi.

the reality of the pi specifications speak for themselves... it’s not a computer for serious work and wasnt designed to be. Our goal of ARC is to provide you access to the latest technologies without sacrificing hardware performance limitations. Meaning, I won’t hold back feature development of the ARC software to accommodate slow computers.

also, supporting the pi still means tons of hardware compatibility limitations. Like being able to simply connect a usb device and use it. There’s just no standard framework because no one actually owns any decisions that go into operating system development. And when a group of people finally decide on a way to do it, they change it a month later with a new source branch and call it a new name.

the open source philosophy surrounding the pi has become a playground for programmers to experiment and demonstrate their abilities, rather than develop a stable/standardized product that applications for businesses and consumers can rely on - at least without significant ongoing maintenance efforts. albeit, the work gone into that open source world is remarkable and definitely paves the way to influence stable commercial software on windows. So it really has its place.

It just isn’t a great platform to host commercial applications. But, their community accepts that because it’s the nature of open source. Push push push push changes with new features and let users test. It’s not about the product for them. It’s about the technology. I respect it. But as a business, I don’t know if we can support the lack of standardization.

My first robot for YouTube has a built in Latte Panda and a 10 inch touch screen. I have 18 axis of motion. It’s not all together yet to test all them working at the same time so not sure it the original panda will have enough power. If not I’ll swap it out with the alpha. It’s not slow but not fast once you have it up and booting. But prolly way better than a pi.

i look forward to any hack nights with the panda.

Will, the ui during development is gonna be slow no matter what you do on a light weight computer. Whether it’s compiling a custom program in gcc. However, once the program is up and running - it’ll fly.

the UI is most expensive for computing. It’s very taxing to provide all those gradients and shaders and anti aliasing and transparencies and widget rendering. But once you stop clicking on stuff and let the program run, it’ll rock.

turning off UI enhancements on the latte panda will speed the ui up a lot. Like disabling transparency and such. Also removing all the unneeded programs. A big performance improvement is disabling the virus scanner.

I believe I covered those performance steps in my latte panda tutorial.