About a year ago I have spent half an hour with the officer explaining why am I carrying so many BDLC motors with me. THe funny thing was that it was after the fly, not before! Everything was in my luggage, and she could not understand what I am saying, just kept asking the same question: "Yeah, electronics, but what are you doing with that?". First I have said "Will see, some of them will be propeller clock, others will drive an RC plane perhaps" but then she did not know anything about that so she repeated her questions all over again till a senior officer arrived and said "Yeah, if there is no chemical stuff in it then it is fine". It was a bit annoying, but I can understand their reaction, better to safe than sorry. Tamas On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Chris Pearson < christopherpatrickpearson@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 an= d > 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 > it > 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 dat= a > > 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 o= n > > its return requiring diplomatic intervention (Think pipe bomb) The even= t > > driven software was started before it left and was still running when i= t > > was returned to us. One of the sensors was light levels. On the way dow= n > > 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 > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D"int main() { char *a,*s,*q; printf(s=3D%s%s%s, q=3D%s%s%s%s,s,q,q,a=3D%s%s%s%s,q,q,q,a,a,q); }", q=3D"\"",s,q,q,a=3D"\\",q,q,q,a,a,q); } --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .