Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: keithr0 Newsgroups: sci.electronics.repair,sci.electronics.misc,sci.electronics.components,sci.electronics.basics,aus.electronics Subject: Re: Ahmed Mohamed Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 17:43:51 +1000 Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <_MWdnXFZxoAt4ZvLnZ2dnUU7-N2dnZ2d@westnet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net uV2YRhU6mPQiQlXtXLT1uAueDRwcpFXz9MmdyFIDA/7MV+htIJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:mm5c4z45o75t1bbgneH5uaKvcY8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130509 Thunderbird/17.0.6 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com sci.electronics.repair:68270 sci.electronics.misc:4677 sci.electronics.components:5779 sci.electronics.basics:46303 aus.electronics:30275 On 29/09/2015 12:14 AM, Mike wrote: > In article , > Michael Black wrote: >> He follows the Make culture, doing anything, even pasting together >> circuitry sold to people so they don't have to solder, is "Making". Come on! This is the 21st century, whipping up an Arduino based datalogger is just as much "Making" as building a super regen receiver using tubes, carbon resistors and a solder gun were back in the day. > The "components" are simultanouesly getting smaller (SMD) and > bigger -- canned modules are a "component" now. > >> The funny thing is, "Make" has been pushing this, and in their regular >> advertising email, they offered a selection of clocks from their store, >> including one made to look like a bomb. > > There was an instructable (www.instructables.com) where someone > designed a clock -- rebuilt an existing mains powered clock -- into > a "dynamite stick bundle with wires and red LED" project. It looked > great, but my immediate worry was -- what happens when a cop > sees it? As usual, "oh that's just a theoretical worry, it wouldn't > happen, cops aren't that stupid" etc. responses ... > > Well, sometimes it does happen! Even an LED/magnet "throwie" chucked > somewhere up under a bridge can trigger an alert. Not through > stupidity, as such, just a bit of paranoia! > You can make a bomb without a clock, but you can't make one without explosives. You'd think that the cops would have noticed that, but, then again, maybe not. I hope those cops never come around to my house, they'd probably think that it was a terrorist bomb factory, what with all the circuit boards and wiring lying around.