Woow, this was my first hardware project right around the time it released! I remember stapling a bunch of LED strips around our common room and creating a case for the pi + power supply by drilling a bunch of ventilation + cable holes in a wooden box.

And of course, by the time I got it to work perfectly I never looked at it again. As is tradition.

That's awesome to hear! Sometimes the journey is the destination, its a great project to get started with electronics.