Raspberry Pi systems are powerful due to their flexibility and relatively low cost. For less than $100 USD, a user can be running a small, low-power system which can be morphed into nearly limitless possibilities. The Pi systems come in a variety of form factors, although just two are common enough to warrant discussion in this tutorial Pre-requisites and Materials To complete this tutorial, the following materials will be required:

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Gitea is a fantastic, simple Git hosting platform for a variety of use cases. For the individual, having sensitive code contained on a self-hosted instance of Gitea could allow for projects and code to be stored which might be inappropriate for hosting on larger third-party platforms such as Gitlab or Github. Gitea is available for a variety of platforms (Windows or Linux, to name a couple) and architectures, such as x86, amd64, and various arm builds to support the Raspberry Pi.