eevBLAB #14 - 14yo Hobbyist Arrested For Bringing DIY Clock To School
- 9 years ago
UPDATE: (because people are so rage-filled that he didn't build it himself)
I *knew* when I made this video that it looked like it was just a commercial clock taken apart. That was obvious to anyone with electronics knowledge who saw the photo. I didn't mention it because it's beside the point. Many electronics hobbyists started out doing exactly this. It's a sad society we live in when a 14yo beginning hobbyist gets criticised for his *lack of skills* instead of encouraged. People should be ashamed of themselves.
Sure he shouldn't have said he "invented" it, and he shouldn't get an MIT scholarship because of it, but geeze, he's 14 and was excited by it, give him a break.
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14yo Electronics hobbyist Ahmed Mohamed was arrested, handcuffed, and dragged away from his local school in Texas after brining a DIY clock to school so he could show his engineering skills to his teachers. They thought it was a hoax bomb and called the cops.
Unfortunately for the idiot grown-ups involved, they only apologised and released him after the story went viral on social media. Even the US President invited him to the White House.
Heads up world, building clocks is something electronics hobbyists like to do, here is one I build when I was about Ahmed's age:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eevblog/6889267973/in/album-72157629351292181/
The story:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
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I *knew* when I made this video that it looked like it was just a commercial clock taken apart. That was obvious to anyone with electronics knowledge who saw the photo. I didn't mention it because it's beside the point. Many electronics hobbyists started out doing exactly this. It's a sad society we live in when a 14yo beginning hobbyist gets criticised for his *lack of skills* instead of encouraged. People should be ashamed of themselves.
Sure he shouldn't have said he "invented" it, and he shouldn't get an MIT scholarship because of it, but geeze, he's 14 and was excited by it, give him a break.
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14yo Electronics hobbyist Ahmed Mohamed was arrested, handcuffed, and dragged away from his local school in Texas after brining a DIY clock to school so he could show his engineering skills to his teachers. They thought it was a hoax bomb and called the cops.
Unfortunately for the idiot grown-ups involved, they only apologised and released him after the story went viral on social media. Even the US President invited him to the White House.
Heads up world, building clocks is something electronics hobbyists like to do, here is one I build when I was about Ahmed's age:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/eevblog/6889267973/in/album-72157629351292181/
The story:
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/9th-grader-arrested-in-houston-for-making-a-clock/?topicseen
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