14yo Electronics hobbyist Ahmed Mohammed 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.
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Heads up world, building clocks is something electronics hobbyists do. Here is the one I build when I was Ahmeds age:
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