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Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths

Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2021–2022.

Stuff Made Here designs and builds an "unpickable" lock, then calls in a locksmith to see if it can be defeated. It covers the mechanical design effort and the attempt to pick it.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Raised in lock-picking threads as a related attempt at an unpickable lock, and for novel anti-picking mechanisms.

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“Together they give a whole new understanding of lock design and picking methods.”
— yccs27, Apr 2022, in “High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)”

What HN commenters said

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yccs27Apr 2022Recommends

On the topic of "novel, non-pin-tumbler mechanisms": I can recommend the videos by Stuff Made Here [1][2], where he designs two novel anti-picking lock mechanisms, and the related video [3] where LockPickingLawyer tries to pick and bypass them. Together they give a whole new understanding of lock design and picking methods. [1] ▶ this video [2] [link] [3] [link]

in “High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)” · View on HN

swightonJun 2022Cites it

Interesting design. I made a lock a couple years ago that is quite similar in principle (though this design is different and has a couple nice improvements). ▶ this video One of my main goals is to be an inspiration, though if it was based by my design I wish they’d credit it. Especially since they’re patenting it.

in “Enclave: An Unpickable Lock” · View on HN

ryzvonusefNov 2021Cites it

are you perhaps talking about the forever lock? [link] while difficult, it can be undone ----- making a one-off "unpickable" lock is possible, here is some to-and fro between two youtube channels about such locks: Stuff Made Here: ▶ this video [link] Lock Picking Lawyer: [link] But things from installation issues, to making sure tolerances are maintained while making the locks on a production line, mean that there are always some gaps left in a mass produced and installed lock.

in “Saintcon: Lock Picking Lawyer Keynote” · View on HN

banana_giraffeAug 2021Cites it

What am I missing? This looks like a re-encode: $ yt-dlp -x --sponskrub --sponskrub-cut ▶ this video [youtube] ▶ this video Downloading webpage [youtube] ▶ this video Downloading android player API JSON [info] ▶ this video Downloading 1 format(s): 251 [download] Destination: Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths ▶ this video [download] 100% of 12.72MiB in 00:00 [ExtractAudio] Destination: Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths ▶ this video Deleting original file Making an unpickable lock. Calling locksmiths ▶ this video (pass -k to keep) [SponSkrub] Trying to remove sponsor sections WARNING: Cutting out sponsor segments will cause the subtitles to go out of sync. [libopus @ 0x5462c20] No bit rate set. Defaulting to 96000 bps. size= 3515kB time=00:04:33.53 bitrate= 105.3kbits/s speed= 26x Without the audio only option, it's more clear it's re-encoding: [SponSkrub] Trying to remove sponsor sections WARNING: Cutting out sponsor segments will cause the subtitles to go out of sync. [libopus @ 0x5575420] No bit rate set. Defaulting to 96000 bps. frame= 51 fps=8.5 q=0.0 size= 1kB time=00:00:01.95 bitrate= 3.5kbits/s speed=0.326x

in “Yt-dlp – A YouTube-dl fork with additional features and fixes” · View on HN

Topics & tags

Mechanical & precision engineering3D printing, CNC & maker projectslock pickingmechanical designunpickable locklocksmithengineering