Man, you definitely can take 1 hour off in a day 3-4 times a week. Just take this time and go to the gym or do some interval training outside (sprint/job/sprint/jog etc. cross-fit style).
You can sleep a little less if you really need the time, but I'm sure you can take the time to workout... I do take it.
Ok, I see on most monitors that we only see the description about 'Video calling'.
I'll try to bring the title about 'Meet new people' up, should help people understand that they can scroll down to read more...
A while ago I bought 'Arduino' and 'PIC', they both provided a microcontroller and the cord that goes from your PC to the microcontroller so you can update the code in the chip etc.
I tinkered a little bit with Arduino and you can build quite a few little well working things such as robots.
So, I would use Arduino. The coding part is a lot like C, which is good even for a MC with limited memory resources and processor.
You can sleep a little less if you really need the time, but I'm sure you can take the time to workout... I do take it.