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Reverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock…and Ourselves
ArtVoice ^ | September 17, 2015 | Anthony

Posted on 09/19/2015 5:51:43 AM PDT by 1010RD

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To: 1010RD
I frequently took apart electronic devices

I did that in the early 1980s with a color TV. Took the case off to see what was inside, even though I had little training in electronics. ZAPPPPPPP!!

Only cost me $200 to get it fixed at a TV Repair Shop.
22 posted on 09/19/2015 6:38:08 AM PDT by TomGuy
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23 posted on 09/19/2015 6:42:05 AM PDT by Liz
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To: unixfox

He’s an archetypal Muslim inventor. Take 70’s technology, make it even more primitive, and use it for an evil purpose it was never intended for. It’s their entire technological history.

If Muslims had to use their own inventions, the Twin Towers would still be standing.


24 posted on 09/19/2015 6:44:27 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: 1010RD

I suspected the same thing - he removed an old electronic clock from its case and put the circuit board and parts in the pencil box. I bet he didn’t have to solder one connection!

When I was a teenager I did a few real things with electronics. I built an audio filter - just two chips and a few other parts, I drew the circuit board. The audio filter went into my tube-type ham radio transceiver. I tapped the filament voltage and converted it to DC to run the filter. With a turn of the switch the unfiltered audio would either go to the audio amplifier tube unfiltered of it would pass through the audio filter first. I installed it all inside the radio’s case. The filter helped me to hear Morse Code signals better without interference. I have fond memories of getting on my bicycle and going to Radio Shack to get parts for this or that.


25 posted on 09/19/2015 6:44:48 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: RFEngineer

The real news is that our president, and the CEO of Facebook are too stupid to know what true technical creativity is.

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Our president’s a fraud, and Facebook guy stole his technology. They are just giving the little Jihadist hoaxer professional courtesy.


26 posted on 09/19/2015 6:45:02 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: 1010RD
The chip on the green PCB, which essentially is the brains of the clock, looks a little too advanced for a 1980s-era alarm clock. It appears similar to a 1995 chip, LC8560 and a circuit design similar to Figure 2 in this Eleccircuit page.

In any case the "clock device" looks like the components of some inexpensive alarm clock removed from the case and stuck in a pencil box, not in the manner of a science project, or an invention, or to impress some high school "engineering teacher" (who has yet to be identified), but in a manner to create a suspicious looking device with visible electronics and wiring. This is indicated in part by putting the LED display inside the case along with the wiring and AC-powered transformer.

This kid pulsed the system, and his father used (if not helped plan) the scheme to weaken the terrorist profiling efforts of the school and community.

Now Traitorobama, aided by the fifth-column media, has helped to spread this plot to weaken anti-islamoterrorism efforts nationwide, and to further his aims of bringing even more islamoterrorists into this country.

27 posted on 09/19/2015 6:45:12 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: 1010RD

So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation

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Good enough for an invite to the White House.


28 posted on 09/19/2015 6:45:43 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: 1010RD

Get a typical mohammaden first name, repackage a cheap, crude 1970s clock to look like a bomb, get huffy and indignant when questioned by your zero-tolerance policy school, and get Obama to invite you to the White House for your “love of science.” That is so sick and outrageous, but so typical.

What about these kids who are barely older than this mohammaden creep? Has Obola honored them? Probably not because there or no Mohammed’s or Achmeds. But Intel did.

Raymond Wang, 17, was awarded first place for engineering a new air inlet system for airplane cabins to improve air quality and curb disease transmission. Wang’s system improves the availability of fresh air in the cabin by more than 190 percent while reducing pathogen inhalation concentrations by up to 55 times compared to conventional designs, and can be easily and economically incorporated in existing airplanes.

Nicole Ticea, 16, developed an inexpensive, easy-to-use testing device to combat the high rate of undiagnosed HIV infection in low-income communities. Her disposable, electricity-free device provides results in an hour and should cost less than $5 to produce. Ticea has already founded her own company.

Karan Jerath, 18, developed a method of refining and testing a novel device that should allow an undersea oil well to rapidly and safely recover following a blowout. Jerath developed a better containment enclosure that separates the natural gas, oil and ocean water; accommodates different water depths, pipe sizes and fluid compositions; and can prevent the formation of potentially clogging methane hydrate.


29 posted on 09/19/2015 6:50:43 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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To: 1010RD

I have a background similar to the author of the piece. The guy is absolutely right. The kid didn’t “invent” anything. He took out the guts of an old clock.

I will be surprised if Obama follows through on his plan to bring the kid to the White House. The story will quietly go away.


30 posted on 09/19/2015 6:52:56 AM PDT by Oldhunk
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To: 1010RD

it’s awful dangerous to have an exposed power transformer sitting near the snooze button

It was a 120V device. This could have gone very badly for the kid mainly because it looks like he was woefully ignorant of the safety rules for electricity. In other words, it was a deliberate, stupid prank by an ignorant, stupid kid.


31 posted on 09/19/2015 6:54:16 AM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: 1010RD

Begrudgingly I must salute the nefarious genius of his con-artist dad: like a perfect key inserting into a well oiled lock, ALL the elements are there for the American GuiGuilt Narrative.

The really insightful, creative flourish was the NASA t-shirt.

My guess is that careful questioning would show the boy knows NOTHING about either electronics or NASA.

He has NEVER before brought any electonics to school, has never before discussed them with his best friends at school.

This is Bonfire of the Vanities at Romper Room.

The Arab dads daily bread and butter has been guilt manipulation and this is only his latest work, Paliwood come to America.


32 posted on 09/19/2015 6:57:16 AM PDT by gaijin
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YouTube Video: Ahmed Mohammed Clock is a FRAUD
33 posted on 09/19/2015 7:04:19 AM PDT by Zakeet (Make Chelsea Clinton the new ambassador to Lybia. What difference does it make?)
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To: sport

This is exactly as I have been saying on FR since this story first broke. Did Ahmed actually invent a new clock or a new way of telling time or simply make his own electronic clock himself? There is nothing scholarly or inventive about taking an existing, working clock’s innards and putting them inside a suitcase like box, where the clock can’t even be read. It was clearly a hoax bomb, which is wrong to bring to a school or public place, and probably illegal.


34 posted on 09/19/2015 7:04:22 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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To: 1010RD

We need a photo skit:

Obama talking to Mohamed w clock in briefcase sitting there:

“You didn’t build that!”

“somebody gave you those parts”

“somebody gave you those instructions from the bomb making manual.”


35 posted on 09/19/2015 7:05:57 AM PDT by G Larry (Climate change is responsible for melting the logic synapses of leftists.)
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To: Vigilantcitizen

This was no science project.


Exactamundo, FRiend. This was a hoax bomb intended to garner attention. Muslim grievance theater. Mission accomplished.


36 posted on 09/19/2015 7:08:59 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: 1010RD

Gov. Sarah Palin: Muhammad’s Pencil Box

Posted on September 19 2015 - 1:01 AM - Posted by: 

Governor Palin weighs in on the student who brought a facsimile bomb into school:

I Guess Muhammad’s Pencil Box is Cooler Than the Palin Kids’

"It doesn’t look like a pencil box to me." I love Bristol’s perspective on this. You have to read this:

http://www.patheos.com/…/obama-invites-kid-mistakenly-arre…/

Talk about the dangers of a reactionary-slash-biased media! The first reports on this potential bomb-imitator were so fishy to begin with.

Friends, consider the kids disciplined and/or kicked out of school for bringing squirt guns to school or taking bites out of a pop tart until it resembled (to some politically correct yahoo) a gun. Or the student out deer hunting with his dad early one morning who forgot he had a box of ammo in his truck when he parked in the school’s lot later that day. Kids humiliated and intimidated for innocent actions like those real examples are often marked the rest of their lives and made to feel really rotten. Whereas Ahmed Muhammad, an evidently obstinate-answering student bringing in a homemade "clock" that obviously could be seen by conscientious teachers as a dangerous wired-up bomb-looking contraption (teachers who are told "if you see something, say something!") gets invited to the White House.

By the way, President Obama’s practice of jumping in cases prematurely to interject himself as the cool savior, wanting so badly to attach himself to the issue-of-the-day, got old years ago. Remember him accusing police officers doing their job as "acting stupid"; claiming if he had a son, he’d look like Trayvon Martin; claiming he needed to know who was a fault in an industrial accident so he’d "know who’s a** to kick"; etc., etc. Those actions are about as presidential as his selfie stick.

Here’s background on Muhammad’s innocent "clock" he brought to school, and his suspicious refusal to answer authorities:

http://www.breitbart.com/…/09/18/real-story-istandwithahmed/

Yep, believing that’s a clock in a school pencil box is like believing Barack Obama is ruling over the most transparent administration in history. Right. That’s a clock, and I’m the Queen of England.

Compare Muhammad’s pencil box to the ones laying around the Palin household:

– Sarah Palin

 

37 posted on 09/19/2015 7:15:33 AM PDT by Bratch
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To: gaijin

-— This is Bonfire of the Vanities at Romper Room. -—

And now the 24 media spin cycle is over and no one will know the truth. The media is good at what they do.


38 posted on 09/19/2015 7:15:39 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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39 posted on 09/19/2015 7:21:14 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Nifster
It is not inconceivable this was a set up by dad

IMO he was trying to impress his father.

40 posted on 09/19/2015 7:22:09 AM PDT by foxfield (Support the Tea Party. The Tea Party supports you.)
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