Arduino and Pi together

The Arduino and Raspberry Pi are two very different products, but they both cater for eager hackers and makers. What if we could connect an Arduino to our Pi and use it as a slave device? One that reacts to input and sends the output to our Raspberry Pi via Python. To do this we are going to need some special software, and that is where this tutorial starts.

Software setup

Before we can write any Python code we need to download and install for Linux ARM 32-bit from the Arduino website: find.