Hello AL is my name,
Happiness is an inside job. Do not let others determine your happiness for you.
Yes, many intelligent people have not learned if they cant say anything nice to not say anything at all.
To me your post looks like your trying to start up a conversion, maybe you should check out IRC. The stuff you have shown is different, not necessarily innovative, please do not confuse the two.
Innovative - the process of making improvements by introducing something new. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation)
Different is different, without making improvements what does it mater its different?
It helps to show us your effort, lets take the scanner sensor, what was innovative about that? We can find examples of an Anemometer using many different sensors. You wanted help with the sensor. We would all assume the scanner was broken for you to tear it apart for the cheap sensor... innovation?
Great to see you are trying out things, show what you have done. Look over other post, when you see one with the kind of replies your looking for, check out the question.
Don't let US slow you down, keep trying sooner or later you will figure it out!-)
Have fun,
Scott.