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Build a Hidden Lock With a Magnetic Imager
Like many a nerd, I have a certain fascination with locks. This originates in reading the memoir Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman as a teenager, in which Richard Feynman recounts picking locks and cracking combinations while at his day job working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. I currently have a couple of locksport pick sets and training locks that I purchased at hacker conferences over the years (although I’m still terrible at it), and I delight in the YouTube exploits of folks like the LockPickingLawyer . All of which left me wondering if I could try building an interesting lock. One dodge that lockmakers have long used to challenge would-be plunderers is to conceal the existence of the lock itself. A modern variant of this is the magnetic lock, where a magnet is held or slid against an innocuous portion of a door or box, releasing a catch. The problem with this is that, onc
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Like many a nerd, I have a certain fascination with locks. This originates in reading the memoir Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman as a teenager, in which Richard Feynman recounts picking locks and cracking combinations while at his day job working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. I currently have a couple of locksport pick sets and training locks that I purchased at hacker conferences over the years (although I’m still terrible at it), and I delight in the YouTube exploits of folks like the LockPickingLawyer . All of which left me wondering if I could try building an interesting lock. One dodge that lockmakers have long used to challenge would-be plunderers is to conceal the existence of the lock itself. A modern variant of this is the magnetic lock, where a magnet is held or slid against an innocuous portion of a door or box, releasing a catch. The problem with this is that, onc
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According to IEEE Spectrum’s source item, Build a Hidden Lock With a Magnetic Imager, Like many a nerd, I have a certain fascination with locks. This originates in reading the memoir Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman as a teenager, in which Richard Feynman recounts picking locks and cracking combinations while at his day job working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. I currently have a couple of locksport pick sets and training locks that I purchased at hacker conferences over the years (although I’m still terrible at it), and I delight in the YouTube exploits of folks like the LockPickingLawyer . All of which left me wondering if I could try building an interesting lock. One dodge that lockmakers have long used to challenge would-be plunderers is to conceal the existence of the lock itself. A modern variant of this is the magnetic lock, where a magnet is held or slid against an innocuous portion of a door or box, releasing a catch. The problem with this is that, onc
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