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 make your own blockclock. the components are super cheap at jameco :p 
 I'm sure it would be a fun project. I have so many of those thought 😅 
 arduino for kids.  https://makezine.com/ 
 one year I had a goal of just getting back into electronics,

so every weekend I'd make a goal of doing a short project, could be as simple as getting a led light to blink on an arduino. and had to finish it by weekend over. 

just set the endorphins on fire.  was addictive enough to make me come back for a little bit more each time. :D 
 i can never really stick to a simple electronics project, it always starts with a simple idea and at some point up end up at something like "let's make a FPGA implementation of secp256k1" and then i lose focus lol 
 only you 😂🫂🤗 
 I start breaking out KiCad and designing boards. Then I'm like yeah lets make it all surface mount. Oh and needs a power supply, lets make one of those, and so on 
 KiCad is cool, something that i still intend to learn some day 😀 i've never designed my own boards, just used microcontroller/fpga dev boards and PMODs breadboards and such 
 I probably have more fun than I should designing boards XD. I get to sperg out and create satisfying connections and layouts.  
 I'm a Digikey lad because discounts and bulk pricing :) Gotta get extra to fill up the parts drawers :)