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Overview
One of my favorite sayings is "all a lock does is keep an honest man
honest".
Back in my schooling days I had the opportunity to take the bane of most geek
life's, a course on communications and public speaking. With an attitude of
rebellion I chose the topic for the final, I was going to teach the entire
class how to pick locks in 5 short minutes. With a couple overhead slides, some
hair pins, and about 15 master locks I was successful in demonstrating to the
class the extreme ease of picking locks. As the other students passed the locks
around the class most of them were eventually met with the new reality they had
to live in, for there ignorance was no longer the bliss they lived in.
While there is a decade or more of
heated debates on the topic of humanity and honesty, it is with the fore
mentioned biases that we are doing this project. I have been actively
interested in locksmithing and more over lock picking for several years. Any
time a new gadget comes out that speeds up the ability to pick a lock it is
often extremely overpriced. One of these types of tools is the vibrating
lockpick. 60-120 bucks for a vibrating lockpick was a bit ridiculous in my
opinion, so I decided to come up with a cheep way of making a good vibrating
lock pick. For about 9.00 and a half hour we have produced a comparable
lockpick to the most expensive commercial ones.
Now I feel it important to state that this project in no ways will attempt to
teach one how to pick locks. There are so many comprehensive articles out there
on that topic that it would be a complete waste of time. But, if you are interisted in learning more on the topic just google search for The MIT guide to lock picking.
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The Oral-B Humming Bird
I am sure that not once in the product testing, and focus groups and marketing
meetings did Oral-B ever think that there was a possibility that there
vibrating flossier would be the central component of such a potentially
questionable project. A very well build and engineered unit, the Oral-B
flossier is compact and powerful. Using a standard AAA battery at 1.5 volt
battery and a micro vibrating motor. At about 6.00 not to shabby for what you
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Lockpicks
Lockpicks are nothing new as we know, and there are a lot of different type
available depending on the type of lock your interested in picking. For our
project we are going to be building the vibrating pick just for pin and tumbler
style locks. The easiest lock pick for new comers to picking is the Rake. With
that in mind we chose to use a manufactured lock pick.
New picks can be purchased for about 2.00 and
tension wrenches for about 1.50. But for those that are interested in
making there own there are several materials and methods to make your own. All
you need is some strong spring steel and a file. Hair pins work well as does
the metal strips in some windshield wiper blades. |
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9V plug and battery
After a quick trip to radio shaq and about 50 cents for a nine volt battery
connector and a buck or two for a nine volt battery we have our new power
source. Now obviously it won't fit inside of the space for the triple "A"
battery, so a longer cord on the nine volt plug is preferred. |
Tools
that we used
( I.E. you may want to use as well )
One note on power tools: use them at your own risk. Be sure to read and
understand any and all documentation on the tools you use. No amount of
documentation can make up for experience, but there are many people with
serious eye injuries at the school of hard knocks. If you don't know what you
are doing, don't do it and find some one that can help.
Pliers
Soldering iron
Super Glue or Epoxy
Wire cutters |
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