[grep_it]

These are all great projects! When I find myself getting burnt out in my job I find that writing a little toy project usually helps be get back some spark. Some projects that weren't listed that I've enjoyed:

- GUI based bot for a small video game

- raft consensus algorithm

- ray casting

- simple b-tree or lsmtree storage engine

I'll also second chip8 emulator as being a good quick fun one! It helps there are ROMs that help quickly validate your implementation also (https://github.com/Timendus/chip8-test-suite)

[zesterer]

All great ideas to add to my todo list!