In the meantime, I have a few MIDI controller pedals I can try get back into working order. It’s a job of work: hard to get the internal battery replacements here, and electronics fixit guys seem thinner on the ground in my small S. Korean city. (I feel like old gear just gets junked here, instead of sold/auctioned off, refurbished, and resold for cheap like back home.)
So I guess that’s something to keep me busy and learn till the looper pedal is feasible.