MAGNETIC LOCKPICK

[SUBJUGATOR]

Has anyone tried to make the magnetic lockpicks described in Steven Hampton's book Advanced Lock Picking Secrets?

[SUBJUGATOR]

Well I ordered the parts. I was able to order everything I needed from Mouser, including the Solenoid. Surprisingly they have a 10x AA battery holder listed.

[Trip Doctor]

Where do you plan on getting these locks?

[Trip Doctor]

Oops, DP.

If you're gonna try to use it on the keycard locks that are used nowadays (I'm thinking of the ones I've seen in hotel rooms, that have the magnetic stripe) I don't think that it'll work. But.. I'd like to hear what kind of success you have (or don't have).

Are you planning to use a 555 or something similar to feed a square wave to the solenoid, or are you going to keep switching the polarity manually?

[SUBJUGATOR]

Actually I don't really expect it to work on a real lock. In fact, I'm not even sure how I'm going to test it yet. I have electrical engineering and computer science degrees and honestly after watching Iron Man I just felt like building an electronic circuit.

One of the 3 devices in the book requires manually changing the polarity. None of the devices described in the book use a 555. The one I'm going to build is "a noisy amplifier that has high gain and a low impedance output which produces a large signal noise, enough so that it will drive a 24-volt solenoid coil and produce a continual oscillating magnetic field with random frequencies rich in harmonics."