You should totally do it . Its easy, very rewarding and good for STEM education. Forget the whole controller, I was so stoked to see the first time I was able to blink an LED . And fact is controlling an equipment/relay is exactly same as blinking an LED. Adafruit has lots of useful tutorials for beginners and you can learn piece by piece.
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Agree here. That one thing I love about one of my newer role at work (AV/IT) where I get to code AV equipment. Its nice being able to write code for a button and see a bunch of equipment respond when that button is pressed