To be fair, I probably would have felt the same way had I seen those first year projects before coming. I was a bit in awe of what the first years are doing nowadays, like that Raspberry PI assembly language chess, in my day the closest we got was matrix multiplication in x86 assembly.

But I wouldn't feel intimidated by that, firstly because the projects they show at the open day are obviously of a high standard, and some people put a ridiculous amount of time and effort into them, so it's not necessarily representative of the work you'd be expected to do, and secondly because they'll teach you all the stuff you need to know. I know people who had no experience with programming before coming here, and managed to ace all the labwork and projects.