If you can find one at a decent price, in good condition then yes. The vita is what the PSP should've been all along IMO and it's fairly easy to mod and install CFW, just like it is on the PSP.
If you have a case for it, I don't see what's stopping you from re-using the shell of that broken console and replacing the internals with a raspberry Pi.
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