My Backpack Is Slowly Turning Into a Mobile Recon Lab

The zipper gave up before I did. Not dramatically. No cinematic rupture. Just a quiet mechanical surrender somewhere in a parking lot behind a thrift store while I was digging for an ESP32 board wrapped in anti static foam and a USB cable that smelled faintly like burned dust. The bag split slightly near the seam and a small avalanche of adapters, batteries, RFID cards, and tangled wires spilled into the passenger seat like electronic organs. That was the moment I realized my backpack had stoppe