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A project log for Wifi Door Unlocker

Why carry a key when I always carry my phone?

matthew-carlsonMatthew Carlson 05/17/2017 at 00:550 Comments

My aunt is a lock smith and during a recent family get together for a graduation, she brought some lock picking sets. She gave me a few pointers and within a few minutes, I had picked my first lock. Mushroom pins are still a struggle sometimes but I'm getting better. When I got back to Seattle, I was excited about trying it out on my door. I was able to get it open in less than 2 minutes. This concerns me to say the least. We have a regular lock as well as a deadbolt which is only lockable from the inside. The downside would if the mechanism were to fail, we would be really locked outside. The new ESP32 looks like it might have the guts to be performant in promicious mode.

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