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LEGO Flash drive

Lego Flash Drive - 03
Stickman has a pretty spiffy homemade LEGO flash drive - "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..) 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. " [via] - how to & gallery.

Update: Here's another one - USB Flash Drive by Spiked Mods - Link.

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Posted by: MarkWarren on May 30, 2006 at 4:23 PM

Cool mod! Clear bricks might add even more visual interest. For instance:
2 x 4 trans-clear brick:
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=trans%2Dclear+brick+2+x+4

2 x 2 trans-clear plate:
http://www.bricklink.com/search.asp?q=trans%2Dclear+plate+2+x+2

Posted by: legolover on February 11, 2008 at 6:41 PM

how do u hollow out the lego

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