+100 There’s something so fun about using small, cheap, and efficient hardware for interacting with the real world. It’s also a good stepping stone to the wor

+100 There’s something so fun about using small, cheap, and efficient hardware for interacting with the real world. It’s also a good stepping stone to the world of esp32 (which is more suited to most tasks like this, IMO). Warning to OP: it can get really addictive! Next thing you know you have entire collections of random microcontrollers, SBCs, and drawers full of relays, sensors, servos, etc!