How about, seeing as it's the 40th anniversary and all that, building an Apollo Guidance Computer? http://www.galaxiki.org/web/main/_b...nasa-apollo-landing-computer-no-kidding.shtml [Clarkson]"I mean, How hard can it be?"[/Clarkson] It'd nice to see if you could get it to replicate the situation from the landing, and get it to spit 1202 and 1201 alarms. You could then take a drag from your cigar, and drawl "We're a go on that, Flight"
Seeing as it took a software engineer four years to build, I'll say that it's a bit out of my league..