Hardware electronics projects - Who works on them these days?

Several years ago, I was an electrical engineering major in the National University of Singapore. I enjoyed working on circuits, microcontroller programming and the like. In one of our main project modules, my team designed, created, tested and eventually produced an amphibious vehicle that could move on land and in water. Great fun and sense of accomplishment, to say the least.

Now, other than students and engineers at electronics companies, who works on hardware electronics projects today?

The other two groups of people I can think of are hardcore hobbyists and startup teams.

I'll be interested to hear from people who are working on any form of electronics projects, whether they are using PIC/ATmega microcontrollers, Arduino development boards, Eagle for schematics and/or other tools.

Before I share my latest projects, here's a link to our humble amphibious vehicle project.

http://youtu.be/_fzTGUhV7Mg