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Sprite Mods sent in a fantastic Knock to Open Door hack that they have just come up with. It is a door that will unlock when the correct knock pattern is performed. Funny thing is I had a similar idea a few years ago except my idea was to use the door bell as an input device and use bi-color LEDs mounted inside the door bell as indicators to allow the user to enter in a code. The complete device gets its power from a laptop PSU. The power-supply is riddled with capacitors: we’re switching coils here, so there will be lots of EMF introduced on the power-supply-lines and we don’t want that messing with our CPU. In the middle, the brains of the thing: an ATTiny2313. The ATTiny drives four BUZ11 MOSFETs, who in turn switch the bipolar stepper motor which turns the knob. While not drawn, the BUZ11s have integrated ESD-protection diodes to protect form EMF backlash by the motors coils. To convince the device to turn its motor, two ways are provided: first of all, a set of buttons for testing purposes. Secondly, there’s the analogue stuff right from the microcontroller, which basically is an elektret microphone plus a really crude and hacked pre-amp. It took some fiddling to get the resistor values right, but when I drew the schematic of what I had built, that turned out to be no surprise: as you can see in the schematic, T2 is upside-down, with its collector and emitter switched. ”
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June 12th, 2007
I might add this to my list of locks to get through for a big safe…..
June 12th, 2007
cool i likey, just hope nobody whos watching has a tape recorder………
June 12th, 2007
If i ever own a bank, this will be the first door to the vault
June 13th, 2007
what will be the second??
not bad!!
June 13th, 2007
Great hack
June 14th, 2007
Knock to open
Sprites mods writes -What to do if you are renting a room in students flat and want to make use of an unused, empty room? You just walk in and do your thing. What if the landlord, for some…
June 14th, 2007
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June 14th, 2007
Great hack, and I’m all for DIY, but in case you don’t have the skillz or need it NOW, there’s this.
June 14th, 2007
Whoops, no HTML? Here’s the link:
http://www.nokey.com/knocknoctoac.html
June 14th, 2007
Hi Ed T,
Great find, who would ever think there would be knock to open system available for purchase! It seems to be harder and harder to create anything that is unique anymore…
June 14th, 2007
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June 14th, 2007
Alan,
Well, as Barbara Grizzuti Harrison once said, “There are no original ideas, only original people”.
Besides, as an engineer the challenge is always not to invent a brand new thing, but to execute an existing idea in as an efficient manner as possible or to retask an existing idea for a new purpose.
BTW, love the blog - one of the few that stay in my RSS stream.
June 16th, 2007
I hope it can handle more complicated knocks than that. Similar to passwords; longer is better.
June 18th, 2007
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June 18th, 2007
well said Ed. T
June 30th, 2007
This is really cool… A secret knock