I got a giftcard as a small Christmas bonus at work and I'm gonna spend it on a Raspberry Pi 3 with a small screen. At Dutch train stations, one often finds these information signs: It'd be cool (and nerdy, I'm not denying that here) to build it myself so I can always know when the next train goes - I travel by train quite a lot. There's an API for the train times and I can probably build a script that fetches that info every few minutes or so. Anyone have some good resources for learning to work with Raspbian?
If the cost difference is that much, that's pretty reasonable. By hacking, I just mean that the Pi isn't actually supported by the mainline kernel of mainstream distributions. It requires specific proprietary firmware to boot that will limit you to only running specialized operating systems like "rasbpian."