Yes, "electronics" is lights and speakers, but I don't see why that has to be hipster. What I'm going to do will be more of an engineering/art project and will be pretty impressive to anyone who sees it, hipster or not, if I actually complete the project. I don't really see why it matters anyway, as I usually judge people by their personality and not by what clothes they wear or what projects they undertake.

Thanks to those who actually provided real feedback and weren't just looking for an excuse to be an internet bully.

To Mucky Mucky, thanks for pointing me in the direction of Aerospoke. I saw those before--I guess I just have to have more patience and wait for a pair of those to go on the market for fairly cheap. As for the comment about carbon, though, what you said is not accurate. Plastic is usually considered a 'hydrocarbon', which has quite a different chemical structure than straight-up 'carbon' and is usually an oil derivative, but you are right that there are different forms of carbon itself. There are even different types of carbon fiber (uni, woven for example) which are differently useful depending on your application. A cow is also not carbon, it is just carbon based. This means that carbon is the lynchpin element that can have up to four covalent (strong) bonds, whereas most other elements in a cow's body can have only up to three, and for some of those chemicals, the bonds are ionic (weak) at that. Maybe there are companies out there that are calling plastic 'carbon' on the technicality you stated, but they would be operating on a technical lie.