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Animated arduino powered graduation caps are pretty common, but perhaps not in Florida. When one recent Florida grad placed such a device on his mortar board, the police incited a (minor) bomb scare, confiscated the cap mounted display, and the bomb squad destroyed it. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/student-causes-bomb-scare-at-graduation-with-decorative-ensemble/ar-AAFchE5
Can Cevik, a computer engineering graduate, said he was just trying to be festive earlier this week when he taped a battery-powered digital device to his graduation cap, displaying the message "FIU 2019." ... "Just to clear things up, my cap had an Arduino Uno with a 7-segment display on it and was powered by a 9V battery; it was not an explosive," he said. ... They eventually cleared him to enter the venue, but only after providing him with a new -- plain -- graduation cap. ... Police then called the bomb squad and destroyed the original cap. ... FIU Police Captain Delrish Moss told local reporters that officers acted out of an abundance of caution.
"While that seems very innocent and looks very innocent, it also has the potential to scare people," Moss told local Fox affiliate WSVN. "A police officer spotted it and took the necessary precautions."
This article has a picture of the cap (which appears to be a pretty low effort affair). https://www.waaytv.com/content/national/513449462.html
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Friday August 02 2019, @06:03PM (1 child)
Compared to working at McDonalds, the salaries look great. When you then subtract the ongoing student loan burden however, McDonalds doesn't sound so bad.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday August 02 2019, @06:52PM
Pickup work as a journeyman apprentice for any kind of construction, plumbing, HVAC, electrician, auto mechanic, etc. has much lower cost and time of education and pretty good hourly rates, with just as much "upward mobility" to management and business ownership potential as the average MBA graduate has.
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