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I'm an electronic engineering student currently working in industry, in embedded systems, and honestly it's nice seeing people getting excited about this. Electronics seems full of cynics all-too-ready to scoff at the idea of having an internet-connected toaster than looking into the innovation and interesting/useful stuff that can be done.
I'm really keen to hear about people's projects here! It's really easy to get a pi working with any generic webcam so I've been thinking about setting that up as a timelapse or connected to a motion sensor of some sort so that anyone walking into my room gets a snap taken of them, then using the pi to upload the data to somewhere remote/secure (not always the same thing!)
Also, it's maybe worth pointing out that a rPi is a very different thing to an arduino. The arduino being far better suited to this kind of project, unless you're connecting to the web/crunching serious data. the rPi is a basic computer, the arduino is a microcontroller.
Anyone seriously interested should look up the mBed platform by ARM, it's like an arduino; user friendly and there are loads of libraries but it has some serious hardware. 80+MHz cpu for example! A good few of my friends at uni used this for their 3rd year projects: http://developer.mbed.org/platforms/mbed-LPC1768/
And had a good deal more success than me