Pedal-Pi vs pedalSHIELD UNO vs DUE

6 years 6 months ago #1063 by Ray
This is a small summary of differences and pros/cons between Pedal-Pi, pedalSHIELD UNO and DUE. These are the most important points:

pedalSHIELD UNO
It is a cool project is you are starting with Arduino and you have interest in audio, guitars, effects and digital music. It is interesting if you dont have much experience soldering electronics as they are simpler (and fewer) than in the DUE.
Pros:
  • The general assembly is cheaper than the DUE and Pedal-Pi.
  • It does not require advanced skills or difficult circuit troubleshooting
Cons:
  • The time related effects are reduced because of the small amount of RAM in the Arduino UNO. So, effects like delay and echo are impractical, distortions are great in the other hand.
  • The audio output is better in the DUE (it uses proper DACs instead of PWM)


pedaLSHIELD DUE
It is a nice project if you are a bit familiar with soldering or you build some electronics before. The circuit and general functionality/coding are a bit more complex/advanced than in the UNO.
Pros:
  • More guitar effects available than in the UNO, specially time related ones.
  • The Arduino DUE board is very powerful, including loads of RAM and 84MHz ARM processor.
Cons:
  • It is more expensive than the UNO assembly.
  • It is more difficult to troubleshoot in case that you have problems with the circuit.

pedaLSHIELD DUE
It is an interesting project if you are familiar with software development, Operating Systems, Raspbian, etc (or you want to learn about). Building the board is more complex than the UNO but simpler than the UNO. Some skills soldering are required.
  • It is the project with more guitar effects available and possibilities to develop even more
  • The amount of RAM is virtually unlimited, so it has great hardware to develop time related effects.
  • The Pi Zero Board itself is cheaper than the Arduino UNO/DUE
Cons:
  • The kit is more expensive than the UNO or DUE assembly.
  • The software is more difficult to troubleshoot due to other factors like the OS.

Summarizing:
In a nutshell, if you are starting and you dont have much experience building electronics, I would recommend to build the pedalSHIELD UNO; it is fun, simple, works, looks cool and it is cheap (specially if you pre-own an old Arduino UNO board).
If you more experience/confidence building electronics and you want to experiment and play with ADCs, DACs and digital signal processing to investigate and learn about digital audio, go for the DUE.
If you like Linux, OS and software development Pi-Pedal is the best, the circuit complexity sits between the UNO and the DUE and the amount of connectivity, RAM and possibilities are great. This boars has a lot of fields that are not explored yet like baremetal programming, RTOS, etc.


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