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Back in the early 1980s I made a simple RC and comparator based bomb timer in electronics at school as an official project. How times have changed...
by buffoon 11y ago
Back in the early 1980s I made a simple RC and comparator based bomb timer in electronics at school as an official project. How times have changed...
- zamalek 11y agoConsidering the NASA shirt he is wearing; God forbid the kids wants to get into amateur rocketry. It's a sad day when a system that is designed to protect us all is used as a platform for hate speech.
- buffoon 11y agoIndeed. It was the rocketry hobby that made me think about building timers and electronic things. Such an inspirational hobby when you think about it.
- wobbleblob 11y agoOh yeah, good times. I used to do chemistry experiments as a kid, with the occasional explosions. Good times. Of course my name isn't Mohammed so I never got in trouble for it. I have a NASA t-shirt exactly like the one that kid is wearing in the twitter pic
- zimpenfish 11y agoAndy Ihnatko has a good take on the whole stupid event. http://ihnatko.com/2015/09/16/im-achmed-except-im-not-brown/ http://ihnatko.com/2015/09/16/im-achmed-except-im-not-brown/ "... But they’re happy stories mostly because I was a white Catholic kid named Andy Ihnatko. Not a brown kid named Ahmed Mohamed, and not a black kid named anything."
- wobbleblob 11y agoI think I actually did make bombs as a kid. Wow, fire, smoke and explosions are cool kind of bombs, not to blow stuff up. But that was before the war on terror, and without a name like Mohammed.