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.
3d model of S&G 8500 safe cracker
The robot attaches to the front of a safe using two magnets at the base of the aluminum support columns. It’s controlled by a laptop that connects to the robot’s controller board via USB. Grant wrote a Java GUI to control the machine and display the dial position, the combination being tried, and the detected working combination. We have the rotational speed dialed down pretty low in this video to make it more camera-friendly.
Before building this robot, we built a machine that could crack an S&G 8400 series lock. These locks have a butterfly knob in the center of the dial that must rotated to open the safe. To learn more, check out my post about our original robot.
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Safe Cracking Robot « Kyle Vogt
January 18, 2011
I love this kind of thing, some great work there!
Are you thinking of releasing any of the schematics/source code at all for the project?
Andy
January 20, 2011
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January 21, 2011
Any chance of seeing the robot cracking the safe at full speed?
Tetsu
January 22, 2011
I would like to know more about the safe cracking robot. Wher;e can I get the list of materials, diagrams, code and other important parts to buand would build this thing. I am a locksmith and would like to know more.
Thanks for your time.
Bud
William
April 27, 2011
This is everything awesome about MIT.
Aaron
May 9, 2011