After a while, you noticed your skills started increasing, and your comfort level with different projects ... servo motors inside the body. [Greg06] even included an ultrasonic distance sensor ...

This paper shredder bin monitor is an easy Arduino project for beginners to get into. It uses an ultrasonic ... motor speed is raised to the maximum setting. The project is equipped with a DHT11 ...

While these are undeniably pretty cool projects, you might not find them exciting enough to be your first-ever Arduino project, especially if they don't serve any immediate use to you at all.