Oh, I think this was just TSA going “Wires and switches, OH MY!”
I had packed all this stuff up days ago… IIRC they were the little Parallax Beatles too, so we’re not talking about something crazy with saw blades and all that jazz… just two little 8x8x8 robots that looked like a Barbie Steam Roller with a cute little breadboard on to.
What’s odd is it’s only at PDX, which kinda indicates that they have their own list of suspected Mad Bombers “What bombs at midnight, baby!”
I have not flown through there for years, but literally every Christmas for 4 years, and then like 8 years later!
The swab always turns purple/pink… and they always run it through some kind of chemical analyzer… not sure exactly what it is, but ancient enough to have an amber phosphorus CRT built into the front. It always shows the same 2 peeks… sadly it’s to far away to actually read the scale at the bottom of the graph.
Probably whatever is on the “human detector,” I’m assuming alcohol by the smell… and something that turns purple. Total smoke show 🤣
Nice! 😊