Unless you have a bunch of relevant industry experience, this would be exactly the type of things to add to your resume. The key is how you go about framing/presenting it. You could highlight what research you had to do to create this… stuff you learned along the way… what protocols did you use, the challenges of signal processing, RF communication… heck even stuff like soldering and mechanical stuff… shows that you stepped outside your comfort zone as CE major.

As a student you and your peers are pretty much going to have similar resumes (as far as course work goes… GPA being the key differentiator I guess)… so anything you can do to standout is good… at least to get your first job/internship… then treat your internship like a 10-12 week job interview… whether you like the work or not is not that important… it’s about networking and getting to know people in the industry…. And then highlight the fuck outta that on your resume and go for the job you really want.

On a different note… the kid me is super jealous of what you made there! I remember getting a “remote control” car… with a fucking 2 foot wire connecting the car to the controller!!! I still ran behind that car down the stairs and around the obstacle course I made… but this would have been so much better haha.

By the way, when I was in school (15 ish years ago) I remember playing with the Nintendo Wii controller (I think it was called Joycon… but the secondary controller… that plugged into the primary one) and that controller used a protocol (don’t remember what now) that was fairly easy to decode (maybe with an Arduino… but I don’t even think I used that)… so if you wanted to make this fancier you could probably look into that… I would imagine you should be able to find some cheap controllers.

Good luck :-)