

It appears as though you may have deleted your latest post, but as an amateur safe hobbiest, let me add the following.

My point is, it would be fun to build a Stamp powered device to do it, but don't expect any results beyone the satisfaction of having built the device.

Since I was merely generating random numbers and not storing and checking against numbers I had already tried, I might never have gotten the right number. Second, number of combination possibilies are staggering, with that slow thing it would have taken me years to get it right. After a while, the alignment would drift and the number ordered would not match up to what was dialed. To start with, it was difficult to calibrate the robot to the dial position acurrately enough. These little things had tiny servos and robotic components that would interface to a PC and were programed with tinyBASIC, a subset of BASIC.Īnyway, I wrote a program to generate random number combinations and spin the dial and a motorized arm would put some tension on the shackle to see if it moved. Back in '93 I tried to crack a combination lock using the robotics kits we had in my High School computer lab.
