Comments on: Copper multi-tool

By: Allison

Allison — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:36:50 +0000

Chillz Buddy!

By: alex mccown

alex mccown — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:25:14 +0000

SMART :-P
i can pick locks but this way works to :-P

By: Chris Friend

Chris Friend — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:08:30 +0000

I’m assuming you meant multi?

By: Clark H.

Clark H. — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:38:53 +0000

That kid looks like Eric Foreman from That 70's Show!!

Oh, and I am SO TOTALLY doing that!!

Except it'd be kinda hard to do on KNOBS. >_

By: n0ia

n0ia — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:16:46 +0000

It's too bad that you can't spell the name of your favorite show when you were a kid correctly.

It's MacGyver. And you call yourself a fan!

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:57:15 +0000

Here's the new page: http://www.northpolesoftware.com/copper/copper.html

Sorry about the inconvenience, please come visit my site http://mustardhamsters.com tomorrow.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:40:27 +0000

A friend of mine made one of these; now there are 3 that I know of floating around my dorm. The good thing is that they are easy to protect from, just hot-glue a piece of wood to the back of the door.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:26:47 +0000

Hey, I checked with my hosting provider. They say that I can only use 120 gigs of bandwidth per day. Since I hosted the videos on my site, I used over 500 just today... That was dumb. I'm putting the videos on YouTube and moving the post to a friend's site. Hopefully everything will be better soon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=f02oOs5A4Jc
http://www.youtube.com/v/CG3voCHWNQs

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:49:54 +0000

Sorry guys. It’s not a free site, I don’t know why it’s down so soon. I’m trying to mirror this post on a friend’s site. I’ll let you know when it’s back up.

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:00:13 +0000

note to other hackers posting here : please dont use the so called free web sites because they have a bandwidth limit.

try using a site like photobucket or tinypic to host the images.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:10:27 +0000

I love stuff like this!'
Bummer about the link.

I have been called mcguyver close to a million times but have never once seen an episode of the show.

too busy escaping from stuff i guess. ;)

By: Wotan

Wotan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:38:29 +0000

Google cache didn’t get it, neither did archive.org. Looks like a good hack, though.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:04:36 +0000

Sadly, the link has died due to excessive bandwidth – is it cached anyplace we can see it?

Richard

By: n00nen0se

n00nen0se — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:33:03 +0000

Very similar to something I McGuyver'd in college. I had a buddy who always locked himself out of his room (for some reason we had the only dorm that didn't use deadbolts, just locks on the door). Ended up bending a clothes hanger with a loop in the end to hook the door. It also ended up being good for moving people from their beds to the hallway (or quad if we felt really mean) after they were passed out coming home from the bars.

Cool post though, seems like a much more effective/easy to use design than what I came up with.

By: Timothy Lord

Timothy Lord — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:32:12 +0000

My student-apartment complex is too old for the door handle type required for this to work. I wanted to figure out how to do a similar task with a big slippery conventional doorknob (my last-year's door had a nasty habit of slamming shut via wind and jarring the lock to locked position).

Never found a way.

Instead (I'm lazy) I created a duct-tape "tail" (a few feet long) for the door handle, with the origin somewhere around the 2-o'clock position of the doorknob (on the inside of my door). That way, I could fish for the tail with any handy implement long and narrow enough to reach a few inches under the door, pull it out, yank (which got translated into turning the knob) and CLICK the door's open.

timothy