The US has required laptops out for security screening for a while now, but other stuff (tablets, cameras) could stay in. My experience traveling in Europe has been that all electronics, including cameras, tablets, etc. have to come out.
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When I was a graduate student, I regularly flew halfway across the country with a suitcase full of circuit boards, electronics components, soldering gear, computer equipment, etc for my thesis project. One of the security people seriously thought all that stuff was a bomb.
Imagine the trouble I’d get in if I tried that today. I’d land in Gitmo for sure.
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They’d just make you assemble and solder it, debug it and switch it on to prove it wasn’t a bomb. Think of it as Extreme Thesis Defense.
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Yeah… I think if you went within 10 miles of an airport with that, you’d get tackled and jailed…
Looks cool, though!
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It does! I’d be tempted to make one just to put the look-at-my-big-ass-watch people in their place, but first I’m going to replace the dead guts of one of these:
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That could apply to anything though.
I’ve seen TSA agents freak out over cans of Play-Doh.
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Remember, it’s illegal if you get naked at a TSA checkpoint, but it’s legal for them to body scan and frisk you.
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Take the case off of any cheap radio or alarm clock and most people will think it’s a bomb - anything with exposed wires, really. Because that’s the Hollywood definition of a bomb - anything with different colored wires (explosives not required) means someone has to decide which one to cut while a timer ticks down.
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