The author, David G. Simmons, is not an experienced Go developer but decided to learn it by taking four actions: attending Gophercon, porting a C library to Go, writing a new Go library, and using the InfluxDB Go library to store data in InfluxDB. The author successfully ported a BME280 sensor library from C to Go, which was surprisingly easy, and then wrote another library for the SenseAir K30 CO2 sensor. To use these libraries with InfluxDB, the author used the InfluxDB Go Client library and created a batch point every 4 seconds, adding temperature, humidity, and CO2 readings to it. The author's goal is to expand their knowledge of Go and use existing libraries to build a small project using sensors, which will be part of a larger project to be unveiled in the near future.