Secret Knock detecting Entrance to my garage / workshop

This is (what I think is) a great example of the kind of fun, inspiring projects that come out of communities like Make, BoingBoing, and the DIY nerd world in general. I combined Chris Schaie's beautiful Mechanical Iris, Steve Hoefer's Secret Knock detecting Arduino code, and an engraving made with my scratch-built CNC-Router to make the entrance to my garage/workshop/lab a bit more special. These people all inspire the hell out of me, and I just want to feed a little bit of that back to the source.

A short video of programming in a new knock:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERpBHP3sKkM

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MakeZine
• Secret Knock
• Workshop

[Lodarleif]

good now 84,484 people know how to brake into your garage :D

[ReaperSho]

Make it like Indiana Jones. If somebody gets it wrong. Arrows and a boulder come out of nowhere. That or the eye that shoots out arrows from Legend of Zelda.

[F3RNI5]

thumbs up if u thought the knocking thing was the garage door

[MrParamorevamp]

youre cool

[reesk92]

@Dabmanyt i doubt it if you read the description he mentions he made it using his scratch built cnc machine this is pretty easy for him considering hes made a cnc machine and tbh its not that hard just make some code that times knocks and only opens when the time signatures match

[pskittle488]

@Lodarleif

More than that now, more like 140,207, LOL!!

[Dabmanyt]

Haha.. someone is pushing the button on the opener. But that was a good one. I approve lol.

[olternaut]

Genius......GENIUS!!!

[Llynok]

Fools! This is only round one of his many tricks to enter... the domain.

Surely, he's changed the knock since.

[1marcelfilms]

Cool but too fragile

[Lodarleif]

yesterday when i was really high i found out my comment had alot of thumbs! i got super happy :)

[foreyes4]

@Lodarleif The pedal immediately to the left of the accelerator, yes.