[Lab] Ahmed's Clock - Discussion

[Jason Cobill]

   Wired has a picture of Ahmed's clock - it's in a hard case.
   There's a 110v power cable sticking out one end, a transformer, an LCD
display and two circuit boards.
   Nothing anyone with any electronic literacy would find even remotely
shady.

   He could have done a better job mounting his boards to the case, but
supposedly he built the thing in like 20 minutes.
   (I'm guessing he took apart a commercial alarm clock and re-connected
the components in his briefcase)





On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Ken McKinnon <klmckinnon at rogers.com> wrote:

> I believe Micheal was referring ot an incident last week where a young man
> took a clock through airport security in Toronto.  It looked like this:
> [image:
> http://www.ctvnews.ca/polopoly_fs/1.2550843.1441579054!/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_150/image.jpg]
>
> That guy got what he deserved as he just wanted to see "what would
> happen".  Well, it happened, and he is in a bit of sh*t.
>
> The one in Dallas was described as a circuit board, power supply and
> display.
> The cop described it as a "Hollywood Bomb" without describing any mass to
> be used as the explosive agent.
> The video shows a young man that is very much a geek trying to impress his
> shop teachers with his project....and a extremely overreactive response.
>
> At least he got an invite to the Whitehouse, so hopefully something good
> will come of this.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
>
> On 2015-09-16 6:33 PM, Arran Cudbard-Bell wrote:
>
> On 16 Sep 2015, at 20:27, Michael Scott <michael.scott at ocsb.ca> <michael.scott at ocsb.ca> wrote:
>
> Very intriguing and timely discussion topic. Lots of jurisdictions trying to make anti-drone laws; blinking lights and sounds scaring people everywhere, I can see big potential for problems. Of course, bomb clock kid had a clock actually made to look like wired timer and sticks of dynamite...
>
> Where did you read that?  I've not seen that in any of the news reports.
>
> Here's the interview with the kid.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mW4w0Y1OXE
>
> hard to fault the reactions there.
>
> Well if what you're saying is correct, but i've seen no evidence of that.  Feel free to link a reputable source and prove me wrong.
>
> -Arran
>
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