There are kits available with easy to connect motors and sensors, like from mbot.
My question to you is how low level do you wanna go?
Ill drop different links: * https://www.makershed.com/products/make-a-raspberry-pi-contr... * https://www.makershed.com/products/make-an-arduino-controlle...
as inspiration * https://www.youtube.com/@jamesbruton/videos *https://www.youtube.com/@diorama111
Hope this helps! :)