Last semester in my Solid State Electronics class, our project was a power supply with 5+-, 12+-, and Variable +- outputs. It was an interesting project and lots of people smoked lots of parts. Mine, however worked the first time and passed with flying colors.
I'll scan the schematic if you like.
Also, in Digital Electronics, our project was to build a digital frequency counter. All parts and chips were wirewrapped and a pain in the @$$ to troubleshoot especially if you weren't neat with your wires (most peoples looked like birds nests).
~Mike