Man Reverse Engineers Ahmed’s Alarm Clock, Finds Something Remarkably FISHY

Robert Rich

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about the bomb-looking clock made by a Muslim boy and his subsequent consequences after taking the device to school, which has been causing quite a stir. Unfortunately for him, his story may have just been blown wide open (no pun intended) after a man just reverse engineered his “invention” and found something remarkably fishy.

Mad World News has reported extensively on the matter of Ahmed Mohamed being arrested after “creating” and bringing in a briefcase clock. Liberals, of course, jumped on the matter as their new pet cause, even creating the trending hashtag #IStandWithAhmed to help their movement in declaring “racist” actions by the school administration and law enforcement authorities involved.

Now, while many reports state that Ahmed was ignorant to the fact his contraption looked like a bomb, did you catch what he said at about the one and a half minute mark? “I closed it (the box that contained the clock) with a cable because I didn’t want to lock it to make it seem like a threat, so I just used a simple cable. So, it won’t look that much suspicious,” explained the teen, who alleges that he had no idea his device could appear as anything more than a simple clock. However, that’s not the only problem with his story.

Since then, he’s been seeing lawyers (no doubt in an effort to pinch a few pennies out of whomever he can), transferred to a new school, has even been invited to the White House, and talks of MIT are in the air. However, it seems that this may be short-lived, as an engineer just blew his narrative wide open, as if it wasn’t already causing many to scratch their heads.

Posted to a blog called Artvoice, an article was written by a man named Anthony, who states that he has an Engineering degree and decided to delve into Ahmed’s invention. Kicking off his account of the matter, he writes:

I found the highest resolution photograph of the clock I could. Instantly, I was disappointed. Somewhere in all of this – there has indeed been a hoax.

Imagine that – with everything everyone has had to say, could you imagine the impact an incident such as this would have if it was all founded on a lie? Wait, it gets better as Anthony explains why he thinks this way and offers some pretty damning proof to support his theory.

Ahmed’s clock

“Ahmed Mohamed didn’t invent his own alarm clock,” he writes. “He didn’t even build a clock.”

Explaining that modern circuit boards are all made with the assistance of computers, Anthony notes that modern boards can and do look “like an electronic spider’s web.” However, the board in Ahmed’s clock “looks hand-drawn.” As it turns out, that’s exactly what it was, as his was created back in the 70’s when computer technology was in its infant stages, meaning that they were made by hand.

That being said, if Ahmed “invented” this clock, why would he – a 14-year-old boy – have started with a 40-year-old circuit board? Anthony further declared, “A modern hobbyist usually wouldn’t be bothered with the outdated design techniques.” However, things only get more interesting.

Description of parts ripped out of clock built in the 1970’s and boasted as Ahmed’s “creation”

Take for instance the silk screening on the board — “M” logo, “C-94.” According to Anthony, “a hobbyist wouldn’t silk screen logos and part numbers on their home-made creation.” With all that in mind, he concludes, “It’s pretty safe to say already we’re looking at ’70s tech, mass produced in a factory,” but there’s more.

Photo of the style clock Ahmed ripped apart and called his “invention” with the exact button layout and display

After turning to eBay, you can imagine his surprise to find this listing – a clock made by Micronta, a Radio Shack subsidiary, catalog number 63 756. Looks familiar right? If not it should, as there’s a good chance that Ahmed got his hands on this exact style clock and took it apart in order to “invent” his clock. This kid is a big fraud who had every liberal in America fooled, which isn’t very hard.
Lastly, Anthony was even able to find the pencil box used by Ahmed in his so-called invention on Amazon. According to the description, the box is 8.25 inches wide. On an off note, Anthony found another photo of the clock with a ruler next to it, showing that it’s about 8” wide.

Width of the clock would fit nicely inside of this pencil case found on Amazon

Sounds like that would fit just perfectly inside of a 8.25” box, right? — Just like Ahmed’s “creation.”

In his own words, Anthony concludes, “So there you have it folks, Ahmed Mohamad did not invent, nor build a clock. He took apart an existing clock, and transplanted the guts into a pencil box, and claimed it was his own creation. It all seems really fishy to me.”

That being said, Ahmed has said since day one that he “invented” this clock, claiming it to be his own personal creation on several different occasions. Now, seeing how that’s the case, and the very foundation of his claims are turning out to be false, it can only make the logical human being wonder, what else is he lying about?
(h/t: Young Conservatives)
(Image source: Young Conservatives)