Yes, I got pulled into a room at the Frankfurt airport and had to
explain what telerobotics was and what it had to do with the stepper
motor-driven rack I had in my checked baggage. And that was 20 years
ago. Nowadays I use fedex for my work-related baggage.

Bob

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 08:37 PM, Tamas Rudnai wrote:
> It is not just United States: I have almost got arrested at Dublin
> airport
> just because I happened to have around 20 old hard drive motors in my
> luggage. They held me for an hour or so and asking few hundreds of
> questions about those motors. I mean, that did not even look like a clock
> with lots of wires :-)
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> Tamas
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> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net> wrote:
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> > Maker kid in Texas brings homemade digital clock to school, police cuff
> > and release him to parents, three-day suspension.
> >
> > It's very easy to find, just go to ars technica, slashdot, wired,
> > hackaday, you name it, it's everywhere.
> >
> > In my day, you had to ride in a laundromat dryer to get the police
> > called on you.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015, at 10:27 AM, David C Brown wrote:
> > > Since the link in the Op is dead could someone precis the content for=
 me.
> > > It sounds interesting.

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