Electrical Engineer Builds a Robot That Cracks a Combination Lock Safe in Fifteen Minutes

Boulder, Colorado electrical engineer Nathan Seidle, the founder of SparkFun Electronics, sat down with Wired to explain how and why he built a custom robot that is able to crack a SentrySafe combination lock safe in fifteen minutes.

Nathan Seidle's wife gave him this already locked safe as a gift with no combination. Weird present, but he loves a good challenge. So he built a safecracking robot.

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