Honestly you’re doing pretty good!! One thing that helped me a lot was just learning components as I actually came across them instead of trying to learn an entire electronics course at once. You don’t necessarily need to understand exactly how every component works internally right now, but knowing what each component does and what its pins are for can be really useful when you’re putting the circuit together. Since you already ran into the MOSFET, maybe learn a little more about that + the motor circuit, then move on to whatever component confuses you next.

I would also suggest understanding/building one feature at a time rather than diving into everything at once. And you definitely don’t need to make everything look pretty rn 😭

Also, based on the image you used (I’m not sure if this is just a prototype or how you’re planning to build the final thing), if you’re going to make a PCB, I’d probably design/test the circuit first and then use the actual PCB dimensions and component positions when finalizing the enclosure. Even small differences can make components end up slightly off and not fit properly.
Also, you could experiment with some of the smaller parts of your circuit in Tinkercad! It has a bunch of the basic components and lets you simulate them, so you can mess around without worrying about breaking anything. It doesn’t have the ESP32 unfortunately, but I still found it pretty useful for understanding most circuits :)
TLDR: don’t try to learn everything at once 😁 just go with the flow man, you’ll learn stuff as you build!

hmmm I’m definitely going to try to make a circuit in tinkercad and try to make it real with an arduino uno i have on hand and whatever else i can find. Thanks for all the really really detailed advice, ireally appreciate it. Also, one more thing, when making a pcb, does each of the modules get soldered on top of the pcb, or do you just connect it with jumper wires, or something else?

Nah, the modules get soldered onto the PCB. In fact, that’s one of the main reasons we design a PCB in the first place—so we don’t have to worry about wires going everywhere, messy connections, or loose connections. All the connections are made within the PCB, and you just solder your module onto it.

Something like a motor or speaker usually can’t be soldered directly onto the PCB like a MOSFET, though. You’d solder their wires to the appropriate pads or use a connector on the PCB. The wires still connect to the PCB, so you don’t have to run separate jumper wires all around the circuit.