Now that I've taken the pick-and-place machine course at the hacker space, I should think up a project that uses it. What it excels at is placing large arrays of SMDs on a PCB.
I wonder what I could do with a large array of MEMS microphones and a high performance ARM microcontroller.
One loose knot I really need to tie up is connecting things to a computer. I want to make USB devices, preferably high speed ones.