I am a 3rd year electrical engineering - computer control student at Confederation College, and an organizer of the Innovation Symposium currently in it's third year. I'm not in any of the pics as I was taking them, the first picture is of the OACETT president David Saunders. Mostly with the pic is learning the assembly language to turn on lights, control motors and switches, this year we move to the 16bit architecture and c programming that I'm better at.
I think the arduino has lots of possibilities and a low price point.
This place might give you ideas
http://www.adafruit.com/category/17
me, before going back to school
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/pug2775/me2-1.jpg
Volunteering to help 
http://www.tbaygeek.ca
My HTML play area
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http://www.tbaygeek.ca
My HTML play area
http://www.tbaygeek.ca/test/