Post : Key code door lock won't endanger your security deposit
URL : http://hackaday.com/2012/09/20/key-code-door-lock-wont-endanger-your-security-deposit/
Posted : September 20, 2012 at 1:01 pm
Author : Mike Szczys
Tags : apartment, deadbolt, door lock, peephole
Categories : home hacks, security hacks

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College students have returned in droves to dorms and apartments at campuses everywhere. So this is the time of year we usually start seeing some coded entry hacks. [Charmonkey] recently took on the challenge at his new apartment. There were some caveats though. He needed to ensure the Landlord could still enter using a key, and he didn't want to alter the door or the jamb in any way. What he came up with is a coded entry system that can turn the deadbolt (http://imgur.com/a/VzGDG) .

In order to mount some hardware on the door he removed the inner part of the dead bolt assembly and used the pair of threaded tubes on the adjoining lock section as anchor points. This holds the Pokemon tin he's using as a project box securely in place. The rest of the components all mount to it. These include the stepper motor that actuates the deadbolt, a switch for manual operation, an Arduino, and a motor driver board.

He got really creative with the keypad. The wires connecting it travel through the door's peephole and into the smaller plastic project box that hosts the rest of the hardware.

[via Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/1056cl/nothing_groundbreaking_just_a_keypad_controlled/) ]

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