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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Great article.
I tell people that neither are really going to feel useful to them until they have a project in mind.
Once they have some idea of what they want to achieve, then they can think of an Arduino as a real-world representation of the programme that they will write, while the Pi is the whole computer that will both run the programme and do other things that they might dream up. It's up to them to decide whether they want the ability to [or sometimeo the burden of] handling all the other things that the Pi can do, or whether they want the dedication and relative simplicity of an Arduino.
(And welcome to IPG.)