If you are in the Tacoma, Washington area next week, check out this upcoming Raspberry Pi 101 Class. Here’s a section from the class description that I thought apt:

Notes on the Raspberry pi:

• If you’ve wanted to dip your toes in the Linux waters this is an great place to start.
• If you’re interested in computer science, networking, scripting, web servers, web apps this board is for you.
• Low parts count. You only need the Raspberry Pi board, an SD card and a cheap power supply to build a web enabled project or server. **You probably have an SD card and old cell phone power supply laying around already that will work.
• The level community support for this board and the available tutorials are amazing. A lot of people have donated alot of their time to make your experience with the board fun.

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