Lewis,

You forgot to give us the Money Shot ....... or not, as may be.

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This one is worthy of the DoD's primary Mad Scientist resource.

So the enemy have all these really nify IED type things, and now we want them too? Crikey, who'd have thought?

for $300 a unit I'll put a PIC in a nice steel box with a detinator. I'll even include some rubber bits so it doesn't move about too much.

I'll also keep $250 a unit as profit.

I hope the timer has a large red LED display showing how much time is left to detonation. Otherwise people won't be able to defuse it with only 2 seconds left.

A red wire and a blue wire for the oh-so-tense 'can he stop the bomb, save the ship and marry the gorilla' finale?

.REQUIREMENT: The wire that makes it go bang MUST be the red one.

in addition to " a timer, able to go off at a set time or after counting down a set period", it should have a red flashing light and a digital countdown clock accompanied by a loud beep.

Of course any real supervillain would know that the timer should go off when displaying 10, while the hero is still smiling at the camera.

How about $49.95, made in China?

"a standard connection/interface to be used with all attachable accessories...ie any source input signal can be recognized and used to initiate the base unit"

That would be a Universal Splosives Bus?

Get a copy of Winston Churchills Toyshop. They built similar gadgets in tobacco tin sized boxes.

...before I realised NSW-Crane didn't mean "Not Safe For Work"-Crane.