Technical question on arduino and raspberry pi

Hello slacker newsers. Work sucks butt worse than 2023, so I've decided to focus on some personal project and ideas I've had for years. Without getting into too many details, I'd like to connect a simple storage device (small ssd maybe?) to a screen. Either touch screen or one with a controller (like what you have on your TVs where you can scroll through a menu and make preference choices). I'd like to then display an image to the screen based on user choices.

I know Raspberry Pi can handle the programming, but I'm not sure about the interface between storage and screen. I know that a computer needs a controller for storage to speak to the motherboard but can an arduino be used to create something like this on a small scale? Is there something better I should be looking at?

A member on here kindly offered to chit chat about these things in private and I forgot who it was. I'm so sorry but if you are here, I'd love your input.

This is just an idea in my head, so I might be off on some things and my goal isn't to make it easy or cut corners. It's a personal project for fun, so I don't mind if there are extra steps vs "just buy this thing."


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Are you trying to make a photo frame? If I were you I'd start by picking a good screen, and then deciding what to use based on which connectors and requirements the screen has.

You can't handle high resolution displays with an Arduino, too little RAM + I don't even think it even supports interfaces for that.

SSDs too are definitely out of range for an Arduino, but to me it looks like a simple SD card would work fine for your use case. If you don't care about speed, a simple SPI connections can be used to talk with an SD card. Literally everything has 1 or 2 SPI peripherals, so that's not going to be an issue.

I know Raspberry Pi can handle the programming, but I'm not sure about the interface between storage and screen

The Pi has all the interfaces an Arduino has, and more, so I don't see the issue.

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Yeah, that's kinds sorta what I want to do and like you said Raspberry Pi seems to be the better choice here from the replies I see.


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