Arduino learning advice?

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Hi, I am interested in learning about arduino’s. I am a live juggler entertainer and have ideas about incorporating them into my act.

i.e. using a remote to trigger a servo to release a pin so a ball would roll off a table.

Getting LED’s and causing them to light up and change with music and go off.

Bouncing a ball on a 2’ x 2’ rectangular cut piece of MDF, medium density fiberboard, with a piezo pad/disc to trigger midi in the Digital Audio Workstation, DAW, Ableton, to make music.

I’m just wondering how I should go about this learning curve… Should I buy an arduino kit to begin with? And follow the instructions in a kit to make those projects and then transfer the knowledge to projects I have in mind?

Should I buy the pieces separately that I have in mind to use and go through the trial and error process like that?

Any suggestions on what company to use to buy arduino hobby parts from?

Thanks!

Yes, I would love to not waste money.

https://wiki.ezvid.com/best-arduino-starter-kits

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=arduino+kit&ref=nb_sb_noss

https://store.arduino.cc/usa/

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Have you visited this site?

https://www.element14.com/community/welcome.

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No, Thank you! It looks good. I’m surfing it now.

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Start here:
https://learn.adafruit.com/series/learn-arduino

Use her site a lot for reference. Bought some there, but amazon is usually the easiest.

For more advanced or particular projects I usually just google until I find a close reference in the arduino forums, instructables, github etc.

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I’ve never played with Arduinos, but I use Udemy.com pretty regularly for learning technical skills. I looked and for $10 there is a 16 hour course that is over 3,000 reviews at an average of 4.6/5.0. I like spending $10 much more that jumping around piecing together information from various youTube videos and web sites.