I just got back from a week long training in Minneapolis. The Yemen bomb situation happened to go down while I was away. The portable projector and remote start programming tool I carry in my travel suitcase received all sorts of attention on the return trip. In fact, it was the first of about a dozen times I've traveled with that equipment this year and had to remove i= t from the case. The TSA agent wiped down the exterior of both items thoroughly with some sort of pad. I would assume he was looking for any number of different residues. All in all it took about 5 minutes. - Chris On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:15 AM, Walter Banks wrote: > Years ago well before 911 we built a bunch of long term environment data > loggers that were primarily designed to be dropped into the Canadian > arctic and picked up a year later to have information read out. These > data loggers were packaged in 3 inch plastic sewer pipe with an screw > cap on one end and a domed end cap at the other. They were about a foot > long. > > One of them was sent to Peru to instrument a tree of national > importance. A year or so later it was returned our customer and then to > Byte Craft to have the data dumped out. We knew that it caused a stir on > its return requiring diplomatic intervention (Think pipe bomb) The event > driven software was started before it left and was still running when it > was returned to us. One of the sensors was light levels. On the way down > the case was opened for a few seconds and then closed. > > The return was more interesting. The case was opened for a few seconds > and then closed for about 30 minutes. It was then opened for about an > hour and a half with various light levels suggesting customs examiners > at work. > > > Regards, > > > Walter.. > -- > Walter Banks > Byte Craft Limited > http://www.bytecraft.com > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .