Last week a 14-year-old boy brought a tech project?to school setting off a wave of controversy. He is a Maker and he wanted to show his teacher a fun thing he put together. The resulting reaction was typical of today?s Internet praise and outrage cycle. On one side the Maker community has banded together to?show the boy that his desire to build was important.?On the other side, some believe everything about this story is a dangerous farce. After all, they say, Ahmed didn?t really build the clock. It wasn?t real ? it was just a repurposed Radio Shack clock from the 1980s. The boy?s father is an Islamic firebrand! This is a carefully orchestrated sham so Ahmed can get a Surface and so kids can bring?real?bombs to school and teachers will think twice!
