Lessons in all things Arduino wanted

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I can go either way here. I want either lessons or or want someone to build exactly what i want, not sure which route.
Allow me to explain.

I am old, analogue old, pre computer old. I have watched hundreds of hours of you tube and learnt nothing. I have read hundreds of on line tutorials and learnt even less. I have yet to find a paper printed book thats not in pure gibbish. I have spent several weeks here in the back pages and see what i want but still have no idea how to get there.

I need to find an instructor that not only teaches Arduino but can do so at a small single word level and not the usual instruction videos. I warn you now i am hard work. I am so slow in understanding this stuff you will need to paint a wall and watch that dry at the same time .

Or i can foresake all of this nonscense and just paysomeone to do what i want.

Projects i want to build or have built.
Kite altimiter and gps/ radio locator
first off i wanted to build an altimiter to record the hieght of the kites that i fly, after building it i wanted to go wifi or radio to the floor so i can see it in real time. would start at om to 250m height wise but 1000m would be at the further ends of that project. If i lose the kite i would like to find it again so gms, gps, or radio trackers. Very similar to the High altitude balloon peeps.

Next one was kite led illuminations
start with a single string of 5m rgb programmable led's, single controller and single battery

looking to take that project all the way to ten strings of programmable leds 30m long

I am Midlands uk based but can do teams video or messenger video chats. Chats to run around an hour long and fee to be paid over the internet afterwards. I can also do face to face In Birmingham.

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I just published a very easy build LoRa based GPS tracker, uses the Seeeduino XIAO and an RFM9X LoRa module.

I am in South Wales.

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I agree with you, there are a lot of poor videos on the web and they are not all correct but there are also some great ones. However I would suggest you skip the Arduino and do some of those boring tutorials on basic digital electronics, that will help clear up the gibberish. Try building some of the circuits. When you get through that then start with very simple Arduino projects so you can get to understand them. Each one you build spend time to understand it before going on to the next. I understand, when I went to college the prof held up a new thing from bell labs, it was a transistor. He stated it would never amount to anything so we studied vacuum tubes as the way to the future.

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Cheers. I will whizz off to the search section and start reading again. I spend a lot of time back there, lol.

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