Listen friends I need your help.
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Listen friends I need your help. I'm deeply attracted to these various kinds of enclosures and have a deep need to buy them and instal LCD screens and big click-y knobs and such in them... but I don't know what the heck I want to build.
I'm in danger of just getting one and "figuring it out later" this is madness.
I gotta find the right project!
Maybe some kind of obscure calculator? #electronics , #projects , #help , #enclosures
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Listen friends I need your help. I'm deeply attracted to these various kinds of enclosures and have a deep need to buy them and instal LCD screens and big click-y knobs and such in them... but I don't know what the heck I want to build.
I'm in danger of just getting one and "figuring it out later" this is madness.
I gotta find the right project!
Maybe some kind of obscure calculator? #electronics , #projects , #help , #enclosures
@futurebird may I suggest a movie-style “bomb” with a countdown and buttons and wires sticking out of it, and it’s a game where you have to disarm it with inadequate information about its design and operation?
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@futurebird may I suggest a movie-style “bomb” with a countdown and buttons and wires sticking out of it, and it’s a game where you have to disarm it with inadequate information about its design and operation?
Listen. I made a perfectly innocent transit tracking device and it looked a bit like that and I kept getting stopped and searched because no one knew what it was and it didn't help when I explained that "I made it myself" ... so... yeah.
Bitter memories.
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Listen. I made a perfectly innocent transit tracking device and it looked a bit like that and I kept getting stopped and searched because no one knew what it was and it didn't help when I explained that "I made it myself" ... so... yeah.
Bitter memories.
@futurebird
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my apologiesI learned that if someone says "Well we've stopped you because someone said it looks like a bomb" responding with "How could it be a bomb? It doesn't even have a payload!" indignantly is NOT what you should do.
It's better to say "Oh wow I didn't think of that. It's really just a timer with old style of display. Let me turn it off."
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I learned that if someone says "Well we've stopped you because someone said it looks like a bomb" responding with "How could it be a bomb? It doesn't even have a payload!" indignantly is NOT what you should do.
It's better to say "Oh wow I didn't think of that. It's really just a timer with old style of display. Let me turn it off."
@futurebird that’s good advice. Were you carrying it on the subway?
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@futurebird that’s good advice. Were you carrying it on the subway?
Yeah. I didn't think things through much in my 20s I guess.
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Listen. I made a perfectly innocent transit tracking device and it looked a bit like that and I kept getting stopped and searched because no one knew what it was and it didn't help when I explained that "I made it myself" ... so... yeah.
Bitter memories.
Laurie Anderson, in one of her recorded pieces, talks about going through airports with huge amounts of complicated, sometimes jury-rigged electronic equipment, and being asked to explain and even demonstrate them, concluding with, "So I've given a lot of these impromptu, improvised new music performances for small audiences of airport security personnel."
