An interesting project would be a series of modified USB flash drives like this one made into a Steampunk artifact but there are lots of other things you could make.
A nice, quick project would be a dedicated streaming video PC designed to be a living room internet-connected DVR hooked up to your TV capable of playing DVD and Blu-Ray disks, other digital formats off of removable disks or hard drives, and streaming internet sources like Hulu, Netflix, and YouTube.