Lego USB Flash Drive - Tim P 2006

Saw a picture of a lego usb drive somewhere on the net and managed to 
put this one together myself.

It uses a 128MB Dick Smith electronics USB flash drive. The casing of 
the DSE drive was easy to remove and from there it was a matter of 
resizing the circuit board (it was slightly too large to fit inside a 
2x4 Lego brick) by sanding down the edges.

I cut out the inside of a yellow 2x4 block (had to be yellow or red!.. 
the traditional lego colours but decided yellow looked cooler..) using 
a scalpel with a small blade, and resized it by cutting off part of the 
bottom so that it was the size of two flat 2x4 plates stacked on top of
eachother. 

The circuit board had to be sanded around the edges (unfortunately 
i have no pics of the insides of the Lego drive) and the inner side 
walls of the block had to be thinned, using sandpaper and lots of 
tedious shaving with the back of the scalpel's blade before the circuitry 
would fit inside. 

This done, i cut a slot in the front of the brick for the metal plug 
to fit through and added some packing (folded up sellotape)inside to hold
the circuit board in place.

The bottom of the drive is simply a flat yellow 2x4 plate with the 
bumps sanded almost completely off. This was glued on to the brick body.

The entire assembly is the exact size and shape of a regular 2x4 Lego 
block (size of a 2x6 with the cap on) and can be stacked like one. The 
cap is a 2x2 block resized in a similar fashion to the 2x4 and with a 
flat 2x2 plate (with bumps sanded completely off) glued on as a base. 
The cap fits on quite snugly due simply to sellotape attatched to the 
inner roof of the cap block so the plug does not slide in so easily. 

One cool feature of the drive is a small LED in the circuitry which 
flashes red when plugged in to a USB port. It is easily visible when 
lit up as the plastic of the body is quite thin. (This is visible in 
one of the pictures) 

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