Foo - A black round device with wires?

Just curious. If you saw a black round device about 2.5" diameter with multiple wires, what would you think it was?

Distributor cap?

Its a bug! The gov't is after you!!! bawhaahaha

The device is about 4" length.

I think the answer you're looking for is pipe bomb.

Ballast.

I ask because well...
A few days ago, I brought a stepper motor to school for a project. In my latin class, a girl screams right next to me.
I am shocked, Have no idea what. ANd she says I have a bomb in my backpack.
I have to assure the teacher that the shaft of the motor is not some button to explode it.

Then 2 days later, I was talking to english teacher of last year. Somehow in the conversation, he asks if I make bombs in my basement.
Awkward situation...

I would think it was a piece of electronic or audio equipment, possibly a small electric motor. But then again, I dont watch cable news so I'm probably less paranoid than most people in the US.

STAND BACK!! I'VE GOT A STEPPER MOTOR, AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!!! :mad: *brandishes it fiercely* Give me fresh pizza and nothing gets rotated, understand?!

That was one of the most plain awkward situations I have been in. I hope I dont come across as a crazy kid who makes bombs in his basement...

I would have made a smartassed comment like "no, that's the element for the giant laser satellite I am about to put into orbit, which will allow me to RULE THE WORLD Muhahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa"

They would probably put me in an asylum though for making a comment like that.

Just do the Dr. Evil laugh and walk away.

Go find the mystery item, press it, tell us the results if you're alive. :D

STAND BACK!! I'VE GOT A STEPPER MOTOR, AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!!! :mad: *brandishes it fiercely* Give me fresh pizza and nothing gets rotated, understand?!

You're bluffing, go ahead and turn something slowly. "Go ahead, make my day" :)

Ballast
Electric detonator
Capacitor
Any number of HVAC components

that's what you get for being abnormal... go home a play games where you kill people and bang *****s.... and start doing drugs dammit! now!:p

That was one of the most plain awkward situations I have been in. I hope I dont come across as a crazy kid who makes bombs in his basement...

You don't come across as a crazy kid who sees a bomb in every unfamiliar object that looks as if it might have something to do with electricity; or as a crazy English teacher who bought into what sounds like a small epidemic of hysteria.

Then 2 days later, I was talking to english teacher of last year. Somehow in the conversation, he asks if I make bombs in my basement.
Awkward situation...


The word is out pc, fess up.

It's merely part of the new zero tolerance policy toward geeky science whiz kids.

A toroidal transformer. Electric detonators are normally copper or aluminum and vaguely cigarette sized, not black, and have just two wires with the bare ends wrapped with conductive material.

An HVAC component.

Also, I would have just slapped her and ridiculed her, degrading her untill she was in tears for accusing me for something like that.

An HVAC component.

Also, I would have just slapped her and ridiculed her, degrading her untill she was in tears for accusing me for something like that.
Now now, I dont think my heart has that much lead content in it!

That was one of the most plain awkward situations I have been in. I hope I dont come across as a crazy kid who makes bombs in his basement...

Seems a little late to be worring about that:p