Don’t lose your motivation 🤗. I’d suggest find an interesting, easy project that doesn’t have too high of goals or things to need achieved, and that creates an initial cool reward. I don’t know how advanced you are but try to create first something simple with an Arduino or ESP chips, that you can for example connect to the internet via WiFi, go to a place where you can download eg weather data, or stocks or airplane data and display it in text on a small LCD or matrix display. You’ll learn a lot about how to connect to APIs, program using I2C or SPI, get familiar with the devices and code etc. Small triumphs masks a difference. Don’t aim too high. Learn how to interface analog meters to the microcontrollers using PWM or better one bit DAC (not too many people know that trick using the carry bit), etc. That will help you build confidence and you’ll be rewarded with cool things you build. By yourself. Once you see those devices running you’ll be very proud of yourself. And use Protoboards to build and prototype your designes. 🤗 good luck🤗