Live, robotic, safe cracking demo. No pressure, no pressure!
One of the most entertaining and informative presentations you are likely to see this year! It includes an opening tip for those common digital safes found in hotel rooms.
From the description:
We’ve built a $200 open source robot that cracks combination safes using a mixture of measuring techniques and set testing to reduce crack times to under an hour. By using a motor with a high count encoder we can take measurements of the internal bits of a combination safe while it remains closed. These measurements expose one of the digits of the combination needed to open a standard fire safe. Additionally, ‘set testing’ is a new method we created to decrease the time between combination attempts. With some 3D printing, Arduino, and some strong magnets we can crack almost any fire safe. Come checkout the live cracking demo during the talk!
Don’t miss their highly informative website, SparkFun Electronics.
Open source, part of the Maker community!
This won’t work against quality safes in highly secure environments but most government safes are low-bidder/low-quality and outside highly secure environments. Use tool appropriate for the security environment.