Originally Posted by
Davros
People keep telling me that about the Pi for all my projects, and just so you know for the bigger projects I know they are right in principle, but then I go to control the LED light strips illuminating my flags and it becomes 10000 times more complicated without the USB attached light controller that works with the Pi but none of the simpler boards. The Synapse modules will require extensive soldering of wires to connect to simpler boards but with the Pi unit's four USB ports I can connect them with a little USB carrier board. I can use Python libraries to make scripts to do everything, including control the Synapse modules, but with the simpler boards I have to start from almost the beginning learning a more difficult programme language.