Hello Monks,

I was happy to see that stevieb is among us, as we were both dislocated by fires. When I thought he needed a leg up, I bought his raspberry pi book, programmingtheraspberrypiwithperl.pdf, and soon, I would like to deploy and test. I'm hoping the purchase comes with inner-monastery support.

Anyways, my question is for any takers with experience but the author in particular:

If I want to have a wifi-capable pi, with a camera, what would be the first sensible hundred bucks to spend on acquisitions? I rarely *need* the latest anything, and usually prefer not to be on the bleeding edge. Is a hundred enough?

Also, I'd like to call for links to helpful reading. I seemed to have stumbled onto xs by mistake on somebody else's thread, but now I realize, I'm not going to use it there, I'm going to use it here. Before I ask other questions, I'll read up beginning with perlxs#Introduction

Think that about covers it,

Thanks for your comments,

In reply to XS, raspberry pi, and a hundred bucks by Aldebaran

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