I think I did not see any menton of home automation in the answers so far. Home Assistant (a software to manage home automation) + some sensors, a wifi power s

I think I did not see any menton of home automation in the answers so far. Home Assistant (a software to manage home automation) + some sensors, a wifi power strip, a wall switch and then AppDaemon to do the automations in Python is a great wayvto immediately see in practice what you do in software. One must be careful with woring on mains (with some elements, this can be aviodable for quite some time) but beside that it is a lot of fun. If they live in a house there are plenty of things in the gzrden to automate as well.