Each kit includes the parts to make 5 throwies.
Each throwie lasts > 3 days
Cost is $7.95 and are currently available at OCD, etsy and will be available shortly at local retailers.

Come pick locks with Detroit Locksport @ OCD!

What are we doing? We’re putting on a massive introduction to locksport – everything from beginning picking and other simple bypass techniques up to high-security pin-tumbler design and defeat. Picking, raking, bumping, shimming, combination decoding… We’re going to teach you how to open some locks, and then how to do it fast, because we pick competitively. We’ll also have a few games going to familiarize you with competition picking, and there’s even a few prizes for the fastest amateur pickers!

So why are we doing this? As we pick more locks, pick them faster, teach more classes, and generally get more people picking (especially children), we hope to bring greater attention to the embarrassingly ineffective designs the most common locks we depend on in our day-to-day lives make use of. Raising public awareness of security features and design flaws increases people’s ability to make better informed decisions about their own physical security. We hope that you’ll walk away from our classes and events not just excited about breaking into things (any schmuck with a brick can do that) but with some new knowledge about the strengths and weaknesses of the security systems you choose to rely on.

Register at our eventbrite

Calling all nerds, makers, hackers, designers, artists and iconoclasts! We are having open-hack night again This Thursday (February 2). Doors open at 8:00pm and we run till about 11:00pm. Bring your own project to hack on or play with one of our kits… either way, we would love to have you!

We also have Moped Monday tonight! ==> http://motorcityriot.com/blog/

There is a ton of sweet stuff for sale.

Just click on the menu item “store”

Do your job and write your Senators to stop this!
http://americancensorship.org/

Did we mention we love mopeds now?? O, we didn’t… Well then, we LOVE mopeds!! OmniCorpDetroit is now the new home of the moped group, Motor City Riots’ event, Moped Mondays. Here is a link to there Blog and some of the crazy stuff they have been up to: www.MotorCityRiot.com

Come play on our newly remodeled pole-pong table or hack together some other stuff on January 19th for Open Hack night. We have a ton of tools and would love to see you here using them. Doors are open from 8pm till 11pm. $5 donation

We’re proud to host the Nakatani Gong Orchestra for a special one night only performance!

Monday, December 12
Doors at 8 pm

Percussion virtuoso Tatsuya Nakatani has appeared in Detroit as jaw-dropping soloist; as an imaginative free improvisor in a duo with Swedish guitarist David Stackenas and in a trio with Jack Wright and French saxophonist Michel Doneda; as a Johnny Cash-beat-free accompanist to Dr. Eugene Chadbourne in their extended-technique Country duo, New Directions in Appalachian Music (at the inaugural ART X); and as the Portuguese-singing vocalist/drummer in Bossa-Nova group Yukijurushi. Now he returns to showcase his Nakatani Gong Orchestra- an ensemble made up of local musicians who have been work-shopped in preparation for this performance.

A master at extracting more sound than thought possible from the gong, Tatsuya’s solo performances rank as one of the most extraordinary musical offerings that you can hear today. With a full ensemble of sympathetically resonating gongs, this will be a sonic treat unlike anything heard in these parts for some time.

$10 suggested donation.

In an effort to double the intensity in 2012, we’ll be hosting our notorious open hack nights two times a month — the first and third Thursday. Why, you ask? After being in operation for a year and a half, we’ve decided to concentrate our collective cranial creativity in order to crank out the most extreme projects for all to enjoy in the new, potentially apocolyptic new year.

We look forward to seeing all nerds, makers, hackers, designers, artists and iconoclasts every first and third Thursdays starting January 5th, 2012!

Happy Hacked {forthcoming} New Year!