despite being unable to disagree with you there still might be a few hardcore hobbyist hackers outside who still want to get such a task done just for the sake of it. As long as it makes fun, right? You don't always have to achieve useful stuff. Also getting something like this done might not even be useless. It trains a lot of skills nevertheless.

PS: Don't take hackaday articles too serious, there are some really really talented people among that community and it is always great to see if someone gets some really great (over)engineering done.