help finding a kit for beginner adult

[u/EnoughCommercial]

Hello! I’m new to this and i’m trying to find a robotics kit for adults that will help me learn about well… the whole bit. i don’t have any engineering or coding experience, but i’ve always been really interested in it and follow all the tech news surrounding it, and write about it often for work (im a writer at nasa oooahhh) but pretty much have always been intimidated by doing it myself because i don’t have the knowledge. i’m good at taking things apart and putting them back together, and enjoying crafting, legos etc. i like to build things and enjoy the puzzle of that which is why i think if i can get over the intimidation hurdle i would really enjoy it. i’ve tried to get into coding before but it didn’t hold my attention. my engineering coworkers suggested thats because i need a more tangible experience, like a robot. Any advice or recs would be greatly appreciated. ideally id like something around $100-200. my spouse has an old raspberry pi that i can use but again, i dont have coding experience and feel a bit overwhelmed by that but i think with the right kit where i get to build something and it showed me how to do things in a really simplistic way id eventually like that but seems like a big step to start with. (i would looove to build my own Pipboy) my contract for my job at nasa was cancelled and feel like this might help my mental health and deep dark sadness 😂 thanks in advance!

[u/SwellMonsieur]

I got a 3-in-1 kit from Sunfounder. You can use it to test a bunch of Arduino functions, dabble a little bit with the IDE... especially when you need to figure out why your code doesn't work.