During the February 2015 meeting PARS member, Pete Zawasky AG7C, gave the group a briefing on his personal amateur radio project using the deck of cards-sized Raspberry Pi 2 quad-core, single-board computer (and other components) to allow him remote antenna rotator control via the Internet. The Raspberry Pi computer is a very low cost computing unit that lends itself to learning and experimentation.
More info. on Raspberry Pi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi
http://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST/This%20Month%20in%20QST/April%202014/Ewing.pdf