It’s my first time working with Raspberry Pi, and I also decided to research everything electronics-related on my own and get individual components instead of starting off with a kit 🥹 BUT IT WORKED OMG IT WORKED!!!! Cytron motor driver (never even heard of Cytron but okay), Greartisan motors (Amazon-recommended and the specs looked okay), TCS34725 RGB sensor (this is a bit more mainstream phew), etc.

I wired everything up and tested some basic code for the motors, ultrasonic sensor, color sensor, and camera, and I got some threshold values down.