#lockpicking hacks

[ourwitching]

When it comes to safes, mechanical design and physical layout are just as important as the electron...

[ourwitching]

When it comes to safes, mechanical design and physical layout are just as important as the electron...

[ourwitching]

At a far flung, wind blown, outpost of Hackaday, we were watching a spy film with a bottle of ...

[ourwitching]

At a far flung, wind blown, outpost of Hackaday, we were watching a spy film with a bottle of ...

[pauljacobevans]

Safe Cracking is [Nate’s] Latest R&D Project

We love taking on new and awesome builds, but finding that second part (the “awesome”) of each project is usually the challenge. Looks like [Nathan Seidle] is making awesome the focus of the R&D push he’s driving at Sparkfun. They just put up this safe cracking project which includes a little gamification. The origin story of the safe itself is excellent. [Nate’s] wife picked it up on Craig’s List cheap since the previous owner had forgotten the combination. We’ve seen enough reddit/imgur threads to not care at all what’s inside of it, but we’re all about cracking the code. The …read more http://pje.fyi/NmlbyL

[nerdbrah]

Hack a Padlock key from Plastic Scrapsa

Hack a Padlock key from Plastic Scraps

Not too many years ago, if you wanted a decent copy of a key made, you had to head to either a locksmith’s shop or the nearest hardware store, where real people actually knew their trade. Now we generally take our keys to the Big Orange Box o’ Stuff and have it copied by a semi-automated machine, or even feed it into one of the growing number of fully automated key-copying kiosks, with varying results. But as [BlueMacGyver] shows us, a serviceable padlock key can be whipped up quickly at home with nothing but scraps. The video below details the …read more #Copying, #Key, #KeyMaking, #Lock, #LockpickingHacks, #Locksmithing, #Padlock

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