Not to deter you from a new hobby but the reason those things are falling in price is because one BE is mining less btc each and every day. The more people that mine for btc the harder it is and in turn your BE will generate less and less each day and one BE don't do much to start with. If you are truly going to do it as a hobby then fine, but i think your 60 dollars would be better spent on something else.

Edit. I too am new to the mining and am treating it as a hobby...for what its worth. Back to your question its like tom said, if it can run linux and u can plug your usb miner into it then I would assume you can make it work.