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Andrew Oakley, from the Cotswold Raspberry Jam\u00a0has written an excellent buyers’ guide for the coming season. He’s covered buying the Raspberry Pi initially as well as other accessories that you need to get going with your programming and hacking. Well…<\/p>\n

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