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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Arduino is possible but will be a much bigger PIA.

Raspberry Pi will be much easier, it's just running linux and there's a ton of small screens you can attach to it.

In either case you'll probably want to use a USB storage device or just straight SD card - SD cards kind of suck w/r/t reliability though.


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Raspberry Pi seems to be the consensus better option. Thank you.


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Yeah having actual filesystems and drivers is something you take for granted...until they're not there. Embedded development is for a special type of nerd.


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They have some industrial sd cards that are supposed to be more robust for similar amounts of money


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Yeah for smaller amounts of data id recommend those.


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