finally the best type of general has been made manifest! can anyone recommend me a good starting point for making simple gadgets, small simple robots and ultimately robowaifu? and also automation for smaller companies so I could potentially make moneys out of this (PLC coding and "big" components). current plan is to buy an arduino and grind slowly along with jewtube and chatgpt, but surely a million chad nerds simplified the process by now so that retards like me could digest it within a month. of course this also includes coding for more complex stuff which is why I'd like to learn how microchips work and then actual arduino coding. also this will further help me when making tiny stuff as I'm aware that arduino has huge potential on its own which in turns means "too much potential" for small stuff. main inspirations as of late:
tiny rc stuff: https://www.youtube.com/@diorama111/videos
simple animatronics: https://www.youtube.com/@Melonshu/videos
another thing that troubles me is where to order components. aliexpress takes 3-6 weeks to deliver anything to my shithole and it would be great if I could find a seller in europe even ifs tuff is more expensive.