Hey all. I have had an idea for awhile on something i wanted to build but i really need some help. For starters, i have zero experience programming or using Arduino. I plan on hitting up the resources on this subreddit and looking through the tutorials and such but i wanted a baseline of where to start. What board i need, possibly a power supply i might need, and anything else you think i'm missing or need.

My idea is to have a themed "system" of sound/light/fog playing together but with modes for different themes. For example, I want to be able to push a button and activate "thunderstorm in the rainforest mode." Where the lights would flicker white on and off in sync with lightning. I'd have a recording of a thunderstorm in the jungle playing through the speaker and would need to have the light turn on and off with the recording. That is more of a soundtrack software thing but i think i'd have that under control. All this while it turned on a fog machine. This would all be programmed to run for a predetermined amount of time. Most likely 10 minutes or so.

I dont mind if the button is 4 buttons or just one button you press once for mode1, twice for mode 2.

I'd want mode 2 to be like a desert theme. Orange and red light from the led strip, strong desert wind sound from the speaker, and obviously no fogger.

Ect on the modes

Link below to the type of fogger i'd be using. Its a low like 25 watt fogger. Im sure i'd need some kind of small dc to av converter or a 12v dc to 120v AC relay to turn the fogger on and off. Fogger linked below

Reptile foggerOr thisReptile fogger2

What kind of board do i need?
Do i need some kind of amplifier for the speaker?
and so many more questions and i dont know to ask yet.
Any and ALL help would be greatly appreciated.

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