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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Originally posted by Nick:
That BangGood site sure has some odd "professional tools" - any of those lock picks could get you arrested in Australia.
Hm, I hope not I ordered one.
Occasionally I watch the "LockTube" youtube channel (Bosnian Bill) - that guy is incredible. people send him "Challenge" locks from all over the world with all sorts of crazy custom tricky machined pins, and he picks 98% of them in under 3 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/user/bosnianbill
So, one of the things I added to my Grab bag of interesting bits (in addition to the electronic bits I needed), was one of those clear plastic padlocks and a small pick set.. $22 for both, I thought it would be a fun puzzle/toy, once you get the technique, you can cover the sides and try to do it blind as you would with a real lock.
Im not interested in picking locks per se, just the idea of being able to blind visualise whats going on inside the lock by sensing subtle clicks and movements seems like it would be interesting for a while. I wouldnt carry the picks around in public or anything, so hopefully customs wont jump on them
The Rigol site looks nice, A new scope is something Ive been thinking about for a while, but 95% of what I need to do, my 30yo 20Mhz Dual Digital Storage CRT Hameg does it. Its a bit bulky, but 1980s German build quality is awesome.
Some of the Frequency and PWM measuring and digital displays would be nice I suppose. I read that you can Hack the "E" Rigols into the "Z" models with some Firmware hack. Does anyone know if thats still possible and worth doing ? _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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