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How to Pick a Padlock or Combination Lock in 3 Easy Steps

WARNING:  The following content is for ready pleasure or acadmeic research purpose only. Blog author is NOT responsible for any action of the reader, nor any wrongful activities!

To pick a lock, you need to know the anatomy of the lock

Method 1

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Method 2

Forgot the key — or combination — to your lock again? No worries; we’re going to help you pick that padlock without breaking it.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A razor or box cutter
An aluminum can
A marker
Scissors
A cylindrical object the size of your padlock shackle

Warning: Working with sharp objects and cut aluminum is dangerous. Use extreme caution.

Step 1: Cut off the ends

Using a straight-edge razor, carefully cut the top and bottom off an aluminum soda can.

Step 2: Slice from top to bottom

Cut the can from top to bottom using the scissors, and then fold the aluminum down so you have a flat sheet. Trim the edges so they are straight.

Step 3: Mark rectangles

Using a marker, draw rectangles on the silver side of the aluminum sheet that are 1 ½ by 2 ½ inches, and cut one of them out.

Step 4: Quarter one strip

Take one of the strips, draw a vertical centerline across the middle, and mark the strip horizontally into four equal sections.

Step 5: Draw an “M”

Draw an “M” whose top reaches the halfway point of the middle line and whose sides are about a quarter of the way in on each side. But instead of the center of the “M” looking like a “V,” round the bottom so it looks like a “U.”

Step 6: Cut out the triangles

Using scissors, cut out the M with the rounded middle tip that you drew. Fold the top quarter down to the middle of the rectangle, and the two legs of the “M” up from the bottom so that they cover the piece of metal you’ve just folded down.

Step 7: Roll the center

Find something the approximate circumference of your padlock shackle, like a pen or marker, and wrap the shim (the “U” shape) around it, shaping it to fit into the narrow space between the shackle and the lock. Fold back the wings.

Step 8: Pick the lock

Using the wings as handles, wrap the cylinder part of the lock pick around the shackle and insert the curved part in the space between the lock and shackle. Maneuver it around until the lock pops.

 

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Techonlogy News 2012 Update: Foxconn To Employ 1 Million Robots

Everyone’s preferred Taiwanese consumer electronics manufacturer Foxconn has announced that it will raise its robotic workforce to 1 million in the next three years.

Foxconn, which is world’s largest maker of computer components, assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia. It currently employs over 1.2 million people but only 10,000 robots. However, by 2014, Foxconn plans to increase that number to 1 million. The company’s founder Terry Gou broke the news during a “company dance party” this Friday, saying that the new bots would help reduce rising labor costs and increase efficiency.

Apart from its affiliation with Apple, Foxconn has regularly made headlines over its treatment of employees, and a string of suicides amongst its workers. The company also notably operates a company-owned community, drawing unavoidable comparisons to American coal towns. Whether these new robots will help improve company’s working conditions or image remains to be seen. What also remains to be seen is whether such an enormous addition to Foxconn’s robotic workforce will lead to human layoffs, or simply larger production capacity.

The Simpy Amazing Shape-Shifting Battery Which Fits Every Size!

Rechargeable batteries are a solution for keeping batteries out of the landfill, but you still have to have the right size for your device, which means buying more batteries. What if you could buy just a small handful of batteries that fit all of your devices? That’s the solution presented by The A to D Battery, a single nickel hydroxide battery core wrapped in memory foam that you can simply squish right into that remote control.

The battery is a AA size core with a memory foam wrap that expands to fit larger slots, up to size D.

Gadjitz writes, “Given the small capacity of the battery, it’s hard to imagine that it would provide much life for any gizmo. But when you really need something to work right now, being able to grab a one-size-fits-all battery would be the very definition of convenience.”

We fully agree – some devices call for D batteries because it needs that much juice to run. Plus, we aren’t sure how your devices would react to having memory foam jammed into them. Heat is one issue, and foam that wants to expand (and therefore bust out of the battery slot) is another. Perhaps a solution is a memory foam wrap that can be removed when using smaller sizes, and added on when needing the core to fit into larger battery slots. But the concept itself is appealing.

Designing more sustainable batteries is not an easy task, and most designers bomb on the idea. However, there are a few designs that have stood out as having potential, like batteries wrapped in a solar cell for recharging, or batteries you could shake to recharge. It’s a tough job, but we’re glad designers are taking a crack at dreaming up solutions that can help us cut down on grid energy consumption as well as materials consumption. And, waxing optimistic, if designers keep up the innovation, perhaps we won’t need batteries at all one day.

But untill we see this battery into life, here is a small hack to make a battery adapter