It annoys the crap out of me that young people waste their time with social media and their stupid damn phones instead of doing things like this. The capabilities of the Arduino or the Microchip development systems would have set you back high four figures in 1970’s dollars and only engineers would even be allowed near them. And today’s chips and development systems are infinitely superior and you would be hard pressed to spend more than a few hundred bucks on them with the use of your PC.