Boston Bomb Scare

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The article says he took the guts out of an old clock and put them in a pencil case.

When I understood him to say that he "made" a clock, I assumed that he cannibalized some other existing electronics and put it together into a clock. Kids can get their hands on discarded junk easily, but they don't have much money to buy new individual electronic components that would add up to maybe $50 or so for the same contraption.

So he took a clock apart and stuck it into a pencil case. He probably felt that he made a clock. Instructibles.com is full of similar case mods where people claim that they made something when all they really did was repackaged something.