[TriEmbed] Arduinos and the TSA

[Pete Soper]

I put some electronic parts bought at the UK equivalent of a hamfest in 
my checked baggage once and the Manchester airport security made me open 
the case and show me the parts. It was just a few minutes delay. No big 
deal. This was at the height of the IRA activity over there and not long 
before a square block of the city was blown up.

But my guess is that large numbers of people are doing this every day in 
western countries and if you don't pack a rats nest of wires or ignore 
Bill's advice you'll be fine.

-Pete


On 12/02/2013 02:45 PM, Lauren Putvin wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm a grad student and using an Arduino with some sensors attached as 
> part of my grad school project.  I'd like to take it with me on 
> vacation to work on it some and was hoping some of you had experience 
> in this area.  I don't think they are specifically disallowed by the 
> TSA, but do you get the back room special treatment for taking a 
> microcontroller with you as a carry on or in your luggage? I'd like to 
> minimize the pain since I will have to make connections and don't want 
> to miss those because of hours of security BS.
>
> Lauren Putvin
>
> Biomedical Engineering Graduate Student
>
> Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines http://www.crim.ncsu.edu/
>
> North Carolina State University
>
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>
> 919-515-7016 (lab)
>
>
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