Robotic Safe Cracker v2
Grant Jordan and I built this safe cracking robot in 2006. It’s designed to open any safe that uses a Sergent and Greenleaf 8500 series lock. These locks are classified as “manipulation proof” by the manufacturer. The robot attaches to the front of a safe using two magnets at the base of the aluminum support [...]
Robot Wheelchair
I responded to a summer job offer to work at Panasonic Boston Laboratory doing robotics research. It turns out that an engineer there just wanted to see if he could find an intern to whip up a cool robotic wheelchair to help disabled people navigate their homes. He wanted it done over the course of [...]
Safe Cracking Robot
This isn’t one of those telephone spamming machines that call you during dinner time or while you’re sleeping. This is robotic safe cracking. Two curious MIT studentswith a mysterious safe and a bit of free time built a laptop-controlled robotic fixture that opened a “manipulation proof”, high security safe in just a few hours. My epic [...]