[brewerhimself]

Thanks for taking the time to type that beast. I can see how most people never achieve steps 1 and 2. I find it difficult to come up with an idea that other people think is really cool or, if I do, it's a ridiculously difficult idea that I don't possess ever a fraction of the required skillset.

One project that I've considered before is some sort of auto-piloted arduino-based plane that would fly across the US from Jacksonville, FL (where I live now) to Mountain View, CA. I think this might be comparable to your T-Rex example in that, while it has no practical use, it's still pretty damn cool.

Thoughts?

[jiggity]

That's excellent! It certainly had me going, "That's pretty cool." I was checking the arduino docs and it looks like it has a ton of support for connecting the board to the Internet -- even being able to host its own webserver / connect with Twitter / run a Telnet client.

If your goal is to learn further web development, try including a net component as a more central piece of your product vision. It's your way of hacking your brain such that you'll have to, want to learn that stuff to achieve your cool project.

[brewerhimself]

I'll keep it in mind! Thanks!