[taneq]

Arduinos and hobby servos. No, neither of them are "industrial grade" and yeah, you'll reach their limits pretty quickly, but building a physical thing that does stuff is (in my experience) a huge motivator.

Or if you're already all over the basics, figure out what kind of stuff you want to build and then try and build it. :)

[Paddywack]

Can you recommend where to find beginners projects that “do stuff”.

[taneq]

https://hackaday.com/ - cool projects and interesting stuff https://news.sparkfun.com/tags/tutorial - tutorials on embedded software, electronics, etc. https://learn.adafruit.com/ - electronics tutorials

[Mars008]

To begin with you can get a cheap robotic kit from Amazon, there are many of them, and put it together. That's probably the easiest and fastest way. From here you can read more about servos and controllers, modify its mechanics and software.

[Retr0id]

Just like the article, there's a huge amount of hobbyist-accessible projects on youtube, you can click around the recommended videos.

[sitkack]

Grab a servo and start playing with it.