i made a robot that picks locks WITHOUT A PICK

"This is the lockpicking robot, and what I have for you today is..."

Lockpicking lawyer getting automated

Painfully overengineered. I like it.

The algorithm has decided this video is gonna make it.

Also consider adding rotational compliance between actuator and key. Measuring amount rotated will measure torque. Much more realistic than having encoder inside the door, plus it will reduce fatigue on the keys.

"Yo dude I forgot my key, what do I do?" "Hold on..." Whips out Lock Pickenator 9000

You don't need to have the whole key being metal, if you have pins on the top and bottom to apply the tension the thin plastic won't have to bear the load.

Once you have a part finalized, like that resin keyblade, send it to a company, like shapeways, to have it metal SLSed or whatever, for full strength

i mean ... this IS a pick. thats a beautiful project.

The mans ability to persevere in spite of the project being completely useless and inefficient is amazing.

Lockpicking lawyer laughing from a dark corner menacingly.😂

underrated youtuber

The sheer amount of dedication necessary to make this project work is absolutely adorable. The idea seems simple, but there are so many possible failure points in all the details.

As a trained designer/engineer and now current locksmith. I had a similar idea when I first started. This is far more impressive and way wayyyyy cooler than mine. Your editing and video/graphic presentation in your work is remarkable! I will be using your provided files to add to my daily arsenal of bypass tools. Subscribed for sure!

This is the type of account, that is keeping YouTube from becoming a social media cesspool. phenomenal work!!

OMG... I drew this up about 1983!!! Of course they say that if you think of anything, a thousand others are thinking the same thing. The difference is, YOU built it! So kudos. Mine was used the same principle, but differed in a couple of details: I drew it with flat wires, which could then "stack" in the key blank, and turn upward to the pins in flat slots. And rather than solenoids, I designed mine with an eccentric cam for each wire... the five or six of which would be in a rotating drum, geared together to quickly go through all possible height combos for the lock... I mean, as you rotated the drum with a crank, the individual cams would also rotate inside, but each one at a slightly different rate, through gearing. Tens of thousands of combinations, I thought, could be gone through in minutes. I also drew it so that different blanks could be attached to the drum, for different locks.

The thing about this type of attack is that it's the only one that should work if your lock is designed properly. Normal lock picking only works because, in the real world, tight tolerances are really hard to achieve. This type of attack isn't much of a concern; if your lock takes hours to open, it'll hold up to attack far longer than your hinges, your windows, or the security measures on the neighbor's house.

This is the Lock Picking Engineer, so this video pushed all of my buttons. That was a monumental work of the art of engineering. I've never seen such dedication in a droid before. The slightly easier version is an automated cylinder lock pick, where straight pins could be used instead of curved wires. It looks like you were using a binary counter to set pin heights. Maybe try Gray code to minimize pin movement. You should also be able to reduce the combinations by eliminating large differences between adjacent pin heights which wouldn't be possible when pushing a key into a lock. I loved your Dunning-Kruger graph. 🙂 The entire video was very well done with excellent graphics.

How do you not have a million subscribers?! This is awesome!

This is really cool! If you don't mind my asking, did you ever consider making and testing your prototypes with less pins in the lock? the mechanism is essentially identical for each wire, so once you knew you could fit five wires into a key mould and manipulate them by hand you could've scaled back significantly and saved a lot of money and time by making one or two of the mechanism and testing that.