How-To: Rubber Toy Flash Drive
Turn your plain flash drives into fun custom data storage devices with this rubber toy flash drive tutorial!
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One-Motor, All-Mechanical Obstacle Avoidance
OK, obstacle “reflectance” might be a better term, since this Lego Automatic Synchro Drive from YouTuber xyzzzach bounces off of obstacles, rather than actually avoiding them. But its design is so clever it deserves a bit of nomenclatural slack, IMHO.
Say Hi to the HOG Wheel Drive
That’s Hemispherical Omnidirectional Gimbaled wheel. As an idea it’s at least as old as 1938, but it’s lately been re-discovered by Curtis Boirum, an MS Mechanical Engineering student at Bradley University in Peoria, IL.
HD clock spins up
Ian built a very excellent LED hard drive clock from this design using a PIC microcontroller. It really is a very cool display – nice. – LED Hard Drive Clock 3.5″ [via Hackosis] More: Hard drive clock
Pink Eraser USB drive
Yes, I know, anything can be used as a USB Flash drive case. And yes, you’d want to keep eraser crumbs out of the USB port. I like it anyway. Pink Eraser USB Flash Drive
