Your comment reminds of me the time my friend wanted to build something with a half-duplex radio, and rather than figure out how to get the crappy Arduino library to switch from receive to transmit, they wrote the message & a flag to the EEPROM, overflowed the watchdog timer, and (upon reading the flag after reset) brought the radio up in transmit mode.

So many of my projects start off with "what's the simplest thing that could possibly work." (Most of them stay there.)