[rtisdale]

Going to guess you're a programmer?

If you're like many others, you very likely teach yourself things often by investigating and experimentation :)

No reason you can't do that here.

These are (relatively) safe low voltage parts, a bit of googling and you'd be on your way :).

[frosted-flakes]

Except it's not that hard to accidentally fry a Raspberry Pi. I did that to two or three of them when I was experimenting. They would still boot up at first, but the CPU chip would immediately get burning hot to the touch, and the only way to get it to stay on was to blow on it continuously. I don't remember what I did to fry them.