Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Found this on FB by a guy named Kevin Davis-he asked that it be shared so here......



As you know - my degree is in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. So, as someone with some appreciable expertise, I analyzed the "home made clock" that the kid in Irving was supposed to have "invented" and taken to school. First, it is NOT a simple alarm clock. It is a COUNTDOWN clock. Second -- the kid didn't home make or invent anything. He decomposed an already existing commercially available COUNTDOWN clock (as evidenced by the commercially manufactured Printed Circuit Board (PCB)) as shown in the picture of his device.
If the kid were to "home make" or "invent" a clock -- he would have used a breadboard (as I have added to the picture) wherein one inserts integrated circuits, wires, and capacitors, resistors, etc., to form the logic of such a device.
So, question: why did the kid take apart an already existing COUNTDOWN clock and build it into a briefcase where only the LEDs were visible counting down time? What would happen at any airport, building, school, public sidewalk, if such a device were spotted?
Question: what is in the white bag in the suitcase? It serves no electronic purpose. Hmmmm.
Do you want anyone to bring a briefcase with COUNTDOWN clock embedded within it and setting the clock to countdown and go off during English class in your kids schools? Again, the only thing visible on the outside of the briefcase were the LEDs counting down time to 00:00.
I smell a dirty rat, a setup here, if there ever was one. I am appalled that the media is buying into the innocent "inventor" story. This is not about race or religion -- it is about someone purposefully taking a menacing device to school.
What if a kid were to take an upper from one AR-15 rifle, and a lower from another AR-15 rifle and put it together, then remove the firing pin and take it to school as a metal worker "inventor"? Why, anyone who knew anything about rifles could closely examine the metal object had no firing pin and would celebrate what a great inventor the kid was!!! NOT!!!! How many people at a school could closely examine the inside of this briefcase with a countdown clock visible on the outside counting down to 00:00 and make the call as to its purpose? Again, what is inside that white bag?
Please share this post so that we can inform the public of what the news media is failing to do.

This Facebook post (now there is an authoritative source if I've ever heard of one) directly contradicts the earlier blog post. Moreover, the earlier blog post showed that the circuit board came from an alarm clock, not a countdown clock. Clearly, someone is trying to tarnish Ahmed's reputation and using false information to do it. I wonder why?

PP, why are you spreading posts like this which are clearly BS?

PP wasn't getting anywhere with his efforts to prove the lunar landings were a hoax staged by the CIA.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Found this on FB by a guy named Kevin Davis-he asked that it be shared so here......



As you know - my degree is in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. So, as someone with some appreciable expertise, I analyzed the "home made clock" that the kid in Irving was supposed to have "invented" and taken to school. First, it is NOT a simple alarm clock. It is a COUNTDOWN clock. Second -- the kid didn't home make or invent anything. He decomposed an already existing commercially available COUNTDOWN clock (as evidenced by the commercially manufactured Printed Circuit Board (PCB)) as shown in the picture of his device.
If the kid were to "home make" or "invent" a clock -- he would have used a breadboard (as I have added to the picture) wherein one inserts integrated circuits, wires, and capacitors, resistors, etc., to form the logic of such a device.
So, question: why did the kid take apart an already existing COUNTDOWN clock and build it into a briefcase where only the LEDs were visible counting down time? What would happen at any airport, building, school, public sidewalk, if such a device were spotted?
Question: what is in the white bag in the suitcase? It serves no electronic purpose. Hmmmm.
Do you want anyone to bring a briefcase with COUNTDOWN clock embedded within it and setting the clock to countdown and go off during English class in your kids schools? Again, the only thing visible on the outside of the briefcase were the LEDs counting down time to 00:00.
I smell a dirty rat, a setup here, if there ever was one. I am appalled that the media is buying into the innocent "inventor" story. This is not about race or religion -- it is about someone purposefully taking a menacing device to school.
What if a kid were to take an upper from one AR-15 rifle, and a lower from another AR-15 rifle and put it together, then remove the firing pin and take it to school as a metal worker "inventor"? Why, anyone who knew anything about rifles could closely examine the metal object had no firing pin and would celebrate what a great inventor the kid was!!! NOT!!!! How many people at a school could closely examine the inside of this briefcase with a countdown clock visible on the outside counting down to 00:00 and make the call as to its purpose? Again, what is inside that white bag?
Please share this post so that we can inform the public of what the news media is failing to do.

This Facebook post (now there is an authoritative source if I've ever heard of one) directly contradicts the earlier blog post. Moreover, the earlier blog post showed that the circuit board came from an alarm clock, not a countdown clock. Clearly, someone is trying to tarnish Ahmed's reputation and using false information to do it. I wonder why?

PP, why are you spreading posts like this which are clearly BS?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid is a fuckin genius-I'll grant you that-he has the entire world supporting him, will get a free ride for the rest of high school (heard they are looking at privates-good thing it is still the beginning of the school year), NIT and Harvard want him and of course good ole Barry Sotero-I mean Barack-so he is a Genius-perhaps not in engineering though!

So what, three days of fame. He'll be all but forgotten in a few weeks.

Doubt that. Iconic status.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid is a fuckin genius-I'll grant you that-he has the entire world supporting him, will get a free ride for the rest of high school (heard they are looking at privates-good thing it is still the beginning of the school year), NIT and Harvard want him and of course good ole Barry Sotero-I mean Barack-so he is a Genius-perhaps not in engineering though!

So what, three days of fame. He'll be all but forgotten in a few weeks.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The kid is a fuckin genius-I'll grant you that-he has the entire world supporting him, will get a free ride for the rest of high school (heard they are looking at privates-good thing it is still the beginning of the school year), NIT and Harvard want him and of course good ole Barry Sotero-I mean Barack-so he is a Genius-perhaps not in engineering though!

So what, three days of fame. He'll be all but forgotten in a few weeks.

Anonymous wrote:The kid is a fuckin genius-I'll grant you that-he has the entire world supporting him, will get a free ride for the rest of high school (heard they are looking at privates-good thing it is still the beginning of the school year), NIT and Harvard want him and of course good ole Barry Sotero-I mean Barack-so he is a Genius-perhaps not in engineering though!

Anonymous wrote:Found this on FB by a guy named Kevin Davis-he asked that it be shared so here......



As you know - my degree is in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. So, as someone with some appreciable expertise, I analyzed the "home made clock" that the kid in Irving was supposed to have "invented" and taken to school. First, it is NOT a simple alarm clock. It is a COUNTDOWN clock. Second -- the kid didn't home make or invent anything. He decomposed an already existing commercially available COUNTDOWN clock (as evidenced by the commercially manufactured Printed Circuit Board (PCB)) as shown in the picture of his device.
If the kid were to "home make" or "invent" a clock -- he would have used a breadboard (as I have added to the picture) wherein one inserts integrated circuits, wires, and capacitors, resistors, etc., to form the logic of such a device.
So, question: why did the kid take apart an already existing COUNTDOWN clock and build it into a briefcase where only the LEDs were visible counting down time? What would happen at any airport, building, school, public sidewalk, if such a device were spotted?
Question: what is in the white bag in the suitcase? It serves no electronic purpose. Hmmmm.
Do you want anyone to bring a briefcase with COUNTDOWN clock embedded within it and setting the clock to countdown and go off during English class in your kids schools? Again, the only thing visible on the outside of the briefcase were the LEDs counting down time to 00:00.
I smell a dirty rat, a setup here, if there ever was one. I am appalled that the media is buying into the innocent "inventor" story. This is not about race or religion -- it is about someone purposefully taking a menacing device to school.
What if a kid were to take an upper from one AR-15 rifle, and a lower from another AR-15 rifle and put it together, then remove the firing pin and take it to school as a metal worker "inventor"? Why, anyone who knew anything about rifles could closely examine the metal object had no firing pin and would celebrate what a great inventor the kid was!!! NOT!!!! How many people at a school could closely examine the inside of this briefcase with a countdown clock visible on the outside counting down to 00:00 and make the call as to its purpose? Again, what is inside that white bag?
Please share this post so that we can inform the public of what the news media is failing to do.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/

Interesting article. An engineer takes apart the clock. Contends that the child did not invent or even build a clock. Includes pictures and explanation.

And, for the people who say clocks are not against TSA requirements. What about a box with lots of wires?

Love this article-we as a nation are so divisive, looking to blame and looking to make a "victim" where there is none. If only people would analyze situations and seek the facts, the truth, we would not be in the mess we are in. Keep swallowing the "GMO filled" garbage the media is spoon feeding us and we will no longer exist as we once were-we will be a country of divisive, hateful, gullible, mindless idiots-oh wait.....we might just have reached that point! I am not a conservative (as some may perceive due to my take on things), nor a liberal (as I once thought I was), I just like to explore the entire story, all the facts before I make an ASS-umption! The truth shall set us free! (not overzealous liberal idiots who think everything has to be PC-or conservative" bible thumping idiots with their heads up their asses.

I think this kid and his family knew exactly what he was doing and they are now laughing all the way at us idiots-in America!

This article contradicts the Facebook post you posted. So, which one is correct? They both can't be right. I think it is pretty funny that you post obviously false information and then accuse others of being deceptive. Maybe you are suspicious of Ahmed and his family because you know that you would behave dishonestly in their place?

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Found this on FB by a guy named Kevin Davis-he asked that it be shared so here......



As you know - my degree is in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. So, as someone with some appreciable expertise, I analyzed the "home made clock" that the kid in Irving was supposed to have "invented" and taken to school. First, it is NOT a simple alarm clock. It is a COUNTDOWN clock. Second -- the kid didn't home make or invent anything. He decomposed an already existing commercially available COUNTDOWN clock (as evidenced by the commercially manufactured Printed Circuit Board (PCB)) as shown in the picture of his device.
If the kid were to "home make" or "invent" a clock -- he would have used a breadboard (as I have added to the picture) wherein one inserts integrated circuits, wires, and capacitors, resistors, etc., to form the logic of such a device.
So, question: why did the kid take apart an already existing COUNTDOWN clock and build it into a briefcase where only the LEDs were visible counting down time? What would happen at any airport, building, school, public sidewalk, if such a device were spotted?
Question: what is in the white bag in the suitcase? It serves no electronic purpose. Hmmmm.
Do you want anyone to bring a briefcase with COUNTDOWN clock embedded within it and setting the clock to countdown and go off during English class in your kids schools? Again, the only thing visible on the outside of the briefcase were the LEDs counting down time to 00:00.
I smell a dirty rat, a setup here, if there ever was one. I am appalled that the media is buying into the innocent "inventor" story. This is not about race or religion -- it is about someone purposefully taking a menacing device to school.
What if a kid were to take an upper from one AR-15 rifle, and a lower from another AR-15 rifle and put it together, then remove the firing pin and take it to school as a metal worker "inventor"? Why, anyone who knew anything about rifles could closely examine the metal object had no firing pin and would celebrate what a great inventor the kid was!!! NOT!!!! How many people at a school could closely examine the inside of this briefcase with a countdown clock visible on the outside counting down to 00:00 and make the call as to its purpose? Again, what is inside that white bag?
Please share this post so that we can inform the public of what the news media is failing to do.

This Facebook post (now there is an authoritative source if I've ever heard of one) directly contradicts the earlier blog post. Moreover, the earlier blog post showed that the circuit board came from an alarm clock, not a countdown clock. Clearly, someone is trying to tarnish Ahmed's reputation and using false information to do it. I wonder why?

PP, why are you spreading posts like this which are clearly BS?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/

Interesting article. An engineer takes apart the clock. Contends that the child did not invent or even build a clock. Includes pictures and explanation.

And, for the people who say clocks are not against TSA requirements. What about a box with lots of wires?

Love this article-we as a nation are so divisive, looking to blame and looking to make a "victim" where there is none. If only people would analyze situations and seek the facts, the truth, we would not be in the mess we are in. Keep swallowing the "GMO filled" garbage the media is spoon feeding us and we will no longer exist as we once were-we will be a country of divisive, hateful, gullible, mindless idiots-oh wait.....we might just have reached that point! I am not a conservative (as some may perceive due to my take on things), nor a liberal (as I once thought I was), I just like to explore the entire story, all the facts before I make an ASS-umption! The truth shall set us free! (not overzealous liberal idiots who think everything has to be PC-or conservative" bible thumping idiots with their heads up their asses.

I think this kid and his family knew exactly what he was doing and they are now laughing all the way at us idiots-in America!

Anonymous wrote:Found this on FB by a guy named Kevin Davis-he asked that it be shared so here......



As you know - my degree is in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. So, as someone with some appreciable expertise, I analyzed the "home made clock" that the kid in Irving was supposed to have "invented" and taken to school. First, it is NOT a simple alarm clock. It is a COUNTDOWN clock. Second -- the kid didn't home make or invent anything. He decomposed an already existing commercially available COUNTDOWN clock (as evidenced by the commercially manufactured Printed Circuit Board (PCB)) as shown in the picture of his device.
If the kid were to "home make" or "invent" a clock -- he would have used a breadboard (as I have added to the picture) wherein one inserts integrated circuits, wires, and capacitors, resistors, etc., to form the logic of such a device.
So, question: why did the kid take apart an already existing COUNTDOWN clock and build it into a briefcase where only the LEDs were visible counting down time? What would happen at any airport, building, school, public sidewalk, if such a device were spotted?
Question: what is in the white bag in the suitcase? It serves no electronic purpose. Hmmmm.
Do you want anyone to bring a briefcase with COUNTDOWN clock embedded within it and setting the clock to countdown and go off during English class in your kids schools? Again, the only thing visible on the outside of the briefcase were the LEDs counting down time to 00:00.
I smell a dirty rat, a setup here, if there ever was one. I am appalled that the media is buying into the innocent "inventor" story. This is not about race or religion -- it is about someone purposefully taking a menacing device to school.
What if a kid were to take an upper from one AR-15 rifle, and a lower from another AR-15 rifle and put it together, then remove the firing pin and take it to school as a metal worker "inventor"? Why, anyone who knew anything about rifles could closely examine the metal object had no firing pin and would celebrate what a great inventor the kid was!!! NOT!!!! How many people at a school could closely examine the inside of this briefcase with a countdown clock visible on the outside counting down to 00:00 and make the call as to its purpose? Again, what is inside that white bag?
Please share this post so that we can inform the public of what the news media is failing to do.