[Jon]’s Medecoder tool is a thin piece of wire with a sliding scale to help you position these grooves correctly. To pick the lock, you first set all the pins to the correct height. Then ...

He took a zip tie, and trimmed it to have the same profile of a lock pick. It worked. Not well, mind you, but it worked. After a few uses, the pick disintegrated, but still the concept of picks ...