My project this past weekend was making a linux server in a beer box.  It was an excuse to play with linux for (almost) the first time, make use of this spare mini-ITX board I had collecting dust, and have a file server that is right at home in an apartment full of college students. 

Update: After just a short while, this project is no more due to bad hardware, and I'm absorbing the idea of a linux file server into a different project.