Muslim boy with the clock he didn't invent
Sep 21, 2015 22:20:17 #
Looks like there is more to the story.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/09/ahmeds-f**e-invention-a-sharia-tribunal-anti-sharia-laws-and-obamas-former-homeland-security-advisor-in-texas-something-smells-fishy/
http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/09/ahmeds-f**e-invention-a-sharia-tribunal-anti-sharia-laws-and-obamas-former-homeland-security-advisor-in-texas-something-smells-fishy/
Sep 22, 2015 01:17:27 #
mdfenton wrote:
Thanks that is good, gets you thinking, time to stop this now before it can't be stopped
The generation growing up now is going to be fighting this hard and they won't have the numbers to stop it.
Swede
:cry: :cry: :cry:
Sep 22, 2015 01:37:32 #
Ugh. You guys....
The "device" was an arduino board, a very common playground for electric engineers. The fact that it was misconstrued as a bomb is highlighting a failure to think, and act sensibly...and since these are educators this is even more r****ded.
The media frenzy is going to attract any number of "special interest groups". And the i***ts at the school handed it to them.
The "device" was an arduino board, a very common playground for electric engineers. The fact that it was misconstrued as a bomb is highlighting a failure to think, and act sensibly...and since these are educators this is even more r****ded.
The media frenzy is going to attract any number of "special interest groups". And the i***ts at the school handed it to them.
Sep 22, 2015 08:53:29 #
photoshack wrote:
Ugh. You guys....
The "device" was an arduino board, a very common playground for electric engineers. The fact that it was misconstrued as a bomb is highlighting a failure to think, and act sensibly...and since these are educators this is even more r****ded.
The media frenzy is going to attract any number of "special interest groups". And the i***ts at the school handed it to them.
The "device" was an arduino board, a very common playground for electric engineers. The fact that it was misconstrued as a bomb is highlighting a failure to think, and act sensibly...and since these are educators this is even more r****ded.
The media frenzy is going to attract any number of "special interest groups". And the i***ts at the school handed it to them.
Except, of course, that it wasn't believed to be a bomb. Here:
They put the child out of class, and had him and his clock wait in an anteroom off of the principal's office. Then they took him and his clock to the police station.
No bomb squad was called. No measured were taken to insure the safety of all concerned if they had truly believed it was a bomb.
Sep 22, 2015 08:56:57 #
Gnslngr wrote:
Except, of course, that it wasn't believed to be a bomb. Here:
They put the child out of class, and had him and his clock wait in an anteroom off of the principal's office. Then they took him and his clock to the police station.
No bomb squad was called. No measured were taken to insure the safety of all concerned if they had truly believed it was a bomb.
They put the child out of class, and had him and his clock wait in an anteroom off of the principal's office. Then they took him and his clock to the police station.
No bomb squad was called. No measured were taken to insure the safety of all concerned if they had truly believed it was a bomb.
Were there measures taken to ensure the safety of all concerned in the relevant similar cases of a pop tart, pizza, pointed finger or folded paper gun?
Sep 22, 2015 09:28:17 #
Gnslngr wrote:
Except, of course, that it wasn't believed to be a bomb. Here:
They put the child out of class, and had him and his clock wait in an anteroom off of the principal's office. Then they took him and his clock to the police station.
No bomb squad was called. No measured were taken to insure the safety of all concerned if they had truly believed it was a bomb.
They put the child out of class, and had him and his clock wait in an anteroom off of the principal's office. Then they took him and his clock to the police station.
No bomb squad was called. No measured were taken to insure the safety of all concerned if they had truly believed it was a bomb.
I don't get your point. The many articles written AFTER the "event" can call it anything they want other than "a bomb" which it wasn't. The arduino board can do clocks, it can do controllers for robots, it can do display controllers, it can do lots of things. It is a commercial product.
Sep 22, 2015 14:02:48 #
http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/muslim-boys-cool-clock-is-a-fraud-says-expert/
H**X-BUSTER
Muslim boy's 'cool clock' is a fraud, says expert
'If you thought this kid made an invention, you've been fooled'
Published: 2 days ago
The most famous clock in America is a fraud, according to an electronics expert who says 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed did not invent anything and simply took a commercial clock out of its manufactured case.
In recent days, the story went v***l of Mohamed being handcuffed and arrested after his clock was mistaken for a possible bomb. Police defended their actions, and school officials upheld Mohameds suspension.
Critics of those actions suggest Mohamed was treated unfairly because of bigotry toward Muslims. President Obama even reacted to the story on Twitter.
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. Its what makes America great, tweeted Obama.
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/09/Obama-tweet-clock.jpg
Obama-tweet-clock
Mohamed also received invitations to meet Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and go to NASA and MIT.
Twitter has offered him an internship. TV hosts Stephen Colbert and Ellen DenGeneres have called him.
But is the whole invention a sham?
In a YouTube video that received hundreds of thousands of views in just the first 24 hours, electrical expert Thomas Talbot dissects a photo of Mohameds clock.
"This child, nothing against him personally, never built a clock," said Talbot in the video that runs less than four minutes. "He did not invent a clock or build it, and I'm going to show you why."
Talbot says an expert view of Mohamed's clock makes it very clear what the Texas high-school student did.
"What this is is a commercial alarm clock, as you would purchase in any department store and use at your bedside," Talbot explained. "All he did was remove the plastic case from the alarm clock. This is not an invention. This is not something that someone built or even assembled."
He then lists several reasons for his conclusion.
"If someone had really made a clock, this circuitry would not look like this. First of all, this t***sformer is for a 120 volt line. People who do 'maker' things do not tend to use AC power because it's a bit more dangerous and there's no reason to do it. You can use batteries," Talbot said.
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Next, he spots something fishy with the circuit boards.
"These are manufactured, printed circuit boards, with printed circuit board circuits with a micro-controller in the middle," Talbot said. "Those manufactured boards are used in manufactured products or professional engineer sample runs."
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He found even more alleged red f**gs.
"The ribbon cables in between these are also indicative of a manufactured product. As a matter of fact, commercial clocks tend to have 9-volt battery backup and this even has the 9-volt battery backup," he said, adding: "This was put in here to look like a device with these cables and cords this was put in here to look like a device that would be suspicious and, I think, intentionally so."
He continued, "I see no evidence that this is any creation whatsoever or that there was any modification or even assembly of anything, to have made things out of a kit for example. This is simply taking a clock out of its case."
Talbot then shows a picture of crude clock he created and later improved upon to show the difference between inventors' and commercial products.
"It's on a protoboard, where you can attach wires to a micro-controller," he said. "Something like this is much more likely to be something you would see if someone had actually made anything."
He is quick to point out young kids are capable of great inventions. But this just isn't one of them.
"I've worked with kids in contests who have actually built things. I've seen 12-year-olds and 14-year-olds make amazing things on their own," he said. "Unfortunately, whether it fits your narrative or wh**ever you want to believe or not, this particular child down in Texas did not make anything. He did not make a clock. He simply took something out of the casing."
"People should not recognize this as an invention and recognize this child as an inventor for this particular creation when plenty of other kids have invented things," added Talbot.
"So if you thought this kid made an invention, you've been fooled," he concluded.
Read more at
http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/muslim-boys-cool-clock-is-a-fraud-says-expert/#XITdFyhF4h15QkdA.99
H**X-BUSTER
Muslim boy's 'cool clock' is a fraud, says expert
'If you thought this kid made an invention, you've been fooled'
Published: 2 days ago
The most famous clock in America is a fraud, according to an electronics expert who says 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed did not invent anything and simply took a commercial clock out of its manufactured case.
In recent days, the story went v***l of Mohamed being handcuffed and arrested after his clock was mistaken for a possible bomb. Police defended their actions, and school officials upheld Mohameds suspension.
Critics of those actions suggest Mohamed was treated unfairly because of bigotry toward Muslims. President Obama even reacted to the story on Twitter.
Cool clock, Ahmed. Want to bring it to the White House? We should inspire more kids like you to like science. Its what makes America great, tweeted Obama.
image: http://www.wnd.com/files/2015/09/Obama-tweet-clock.jpg
Obama-tweet-clock
Mohamed also received invitations to meet Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and go to NASA and MIT.
Twitter has offered him an internship. TV hosts Stephen Colbert and Ellen DenGeneres have called him.
But is the whole invention a sham?
In a YouTube video that received hundreds of thousands of views in just the first 24 hours, electrical expert Thomas Talbot dissects a photo of Mohameds clock.
"This child, nothing against him personally, never built a clock," said Talbot in the video that runs less than four minutes. "He did not invent a clock or build it, and I'm going to show you why."
Talbot says an expert view of Mohamed's clock makes it very clear what the Texas high-school student did.
"What this is is a commercial alarm clock, as you would purchase in any department store and use at your bedside," Talbot explained. "All he did was remove the plastic case from the alarm clock. This is not an invention. This is not something that someone built or even assembled."
He then lists several reasons for his conclusion.
"If someone had really made a clock, this circuitry would not look like this. First of all, this t***sformer is for a 120 volt line. People who do 'maker' things do not tend to use AC power because it's a bit more dangerous and there's no reason to do it. You can use batteries," Talbot said.
What do YOU think? Sound off on the saga of Ahmed the teenage Muslim clockmaker now in the WND poll!
Next, he spots something fishy with the circuit boards.
"These are manufactured, printed circuit boards, with printed circuit board circuits with a micro-controller in the middle," Talbot said. "Those manufactured boards are used in manufactured products or professional engineer sample runs."
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He found even more alleged red f**gs.
"The ribbon cables in between these are also indicative of a manufactured product. As a matter of fact, commercial clocks tend to have 9-volt battery backup and this even has the 9-volt battery backup," he said, adding: "This was put in here to look like a device with these cables and cords this was put in here to look like a device that would be suspicious and, I think, intentionally so."
He continued, "I see no evidence that this is any creation whatsoever or that there was any modification or even assembly of anything, to have made things out of a kit for example. This is simply taking a clock out of its case."
Talbot then shows a picture of crude clock he created and later improved upon to show the difference between inventors' and commercial products.
"It's on a protoboard, where you can attach wires to a micro-controller," he said. "Something like this is much more likely to be something you would see if someone had actually made anything."
He is quick to point out young kids are capable of great inventions. But this just isn't one of them.
"I've worked with kids in contests who have actually built things. I've seen 12-year-olds and 14-year-olds make amazing things on their own," he said. "Unfortunately, whether it fits your narrative or wh**ever you want to believe or not, this particular child down in Texas did not make anything. He did not make a clock. He simply took something out of the casing."
"People should not recognize this as an invention and recognize this child as an inventor for this particular creation when plenty of other kids have invented things," added Talbot.
"So if you thought this kid made an invention, you've been fooled," he concluded.
Read more at
http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/muslim-boys-cool-clock-is-a-fraud-says-expert/#XITdFyhF4h15QkdA.99
Sep 22, 2015 14:56:05 #
Sep 22, 2015 16:47:56 #
Wonder if Ahmed could have sent Obama this clock instead? http://www.amazon.com/BigMouth-Inc-Countdown-Clock-Timer/dp/B004WKQOT0?psc=1&SubscriptionId=AKIAIKBZ7IH7LXTW3ARA&&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B004WKQOT0&tag=wwwbookcompar-20&ascsubtag=5601be2648308e23009f2be2
Sep 22, 2015 18:01:28 #
RichieC
Loc: Adirondacks
Gnslngr wrote:
Except, of course, that it wasn't believed to be a bomb. Here:
They put the child out of class, and had him and his clock wait in an anteroom off of the principal's office. Then they took him and his clock to the police station.
No bomb squad was called. No measured were taken to insure the safety of all concerned if they had truly believed it was a bomb.
They put the child out of class, and had him and his clock wait in an anteroom off of the principal's office. Then they took him and his clock to the police station.
No bomb squad was called. No measured were taken to insure the safety of all concerned if they had truly believed it was a bomb.
And of course- it wasn't made of pop tart- the sure sign of a kid who deserves suspension and permanent mark on his transcripts.
liberals
Sep 22, 2015 18:51:40 #
Mmmk...it is a clock. He never said it was anything other than a clock. So his clock is a clock, and the clock isn't a bomb. The clock that isn't a bomb and was never portrayed as something other than a bomb caused a bunch of grownups to become irrational. The irrational behavior caused police to come and continue the irrational behavior. The irrational behavior woke up the media weenies, and they turned the clock into a device. The media and public then turned the device into an invention. The invention it turns out is now a clock due to the expert witness in the media who knows all about clocks.
Got it.
Got it.
Sep 22, 2015 19:18:54 #
Back to the beginning... He pretended it was an invention. It wasn't. It was fraud. People threw money at him. He will get a couple of free years of college out of it. MIT may learn that he isn't so smart. But, he has a clever father behind it all. Authorities erred on the side of safety; so crucify them. So much Monday-morning quarterbacking by people who weren't witnesses. Fascinating to watch the story unfold. Kudos to Mr. Talbot for his analysis.
Sep 22, 2015 19:30:39 #
bvm
Loc: Glendale, Arizona
Swede wrote:
Thanks that is good, gets you thinking, time to stop this now before it can't be stopped
The generation growing up now is going to be fighting this hard and they won't have the numbers to stop it.
Swede
:cry: :cry: :cry:
The generation growing up now is going to be fighting this hard and they won't have the numbers to stop it.
Swede
:cry: :cry: :cry:
It Caused suspicion because it was a count down clock not a normal clock.
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