Beautiful interesting flash drive looks much nicer and attracts people's attention. A funny flash drive is nice to hold in your hands. It doesn't take much time and money to make an interesting designer USB stick. And the result of the work meets expectations. Especially if the old flash drive has already been rubbed and it is very desirable to update it.

To remake the flash drive, you need a new case. This video features a hollow cow. From the electronic filling, a 300 ohm resistor and a red LED are required.

First you need to parse the contents of the flash drive. Having freed it from the old case, we prepare the flash drive for placement in a new case. We mark the right place on the cow for dividing into two parts. In this case, you need to focus on the connector.

If the new body is hollow, it makes the job easier. Otherwise, you will need to additionally prepare a place in the case for placing the electronic filling and the connector. We cut the cow. Let's make holes in the toy in the area of ​​the eyes and mouth. When our device is plugged into a computer socket, the eyes and mouth of the cow will glow red from the LED. This is an interesting idea of ​​this craft, which it was decided to make on our own.

Next, we connect the positive contact of the LED to our resistor. In order not to confuse the polarity, be guided by a simple rule - a large cup is a minus, a small one, respectively - a plus. After that, we need to connect the positive contact to the USB flash drive on the first leg on the right, and the minus contact to the last fourth leg.

Now you just need to carefully fix the board with glue in the new case. To do this, you need to carefully put the board in the case and pour big amount hot melt glue. If you wish, you can equip the lid of the updated design flash drive with a magnet. With it, it will close perfectly after use.

DIY flash drive modding.

The creation of unusual cases for flash drives has long been a separate trend in modding. Many craftsmen work exclusively with flash drives and, moreover, even sell their mods through online stores and auctions. It would seem like an ordinary compact USB drive - why exactly has it become so popular? Before the advent of flash drives, almost every PC was equipped with a floppy drive for reading and writing floppy disks. Unfortunately, floppy disks were not very convenient and greatly limited the capabilities of users. The flash drive, on the other hand, has become a step forward - a compact device that is distinguished by its reliability, lightness and the ability to accommodate a large amount of memory. The flash drive has become a constant companion of many people, because they carry disks or bulky external HDD very inconvenient and much easier to take a neat keychain in which all necessary information... Since this thing is always at hand, many began to think about the external design and style of USB drives. Modding a flash drive does not require a huge amount of materials, a lot of money and time. Ways to decorate your flash drive or make it a full-fledged custom case with unique design a huge number and many can be done even by beginners and inexperienced modders.

Steampunk flash drive modding.

Steampunk has appeared relatively recently, but its popularity only grows with each. Many designers have even started to deal exclusively with steampunk, as the demand for such unusual and original things is growing at a tremendous speed. In flash drive modding, the steampunk style occupies a special niche. Particularly popular is the direction of alternative historical steampunk, which is based on stylization under the real historical world of the 19th - early 20th centuries.
Modder Rob Smith, also known under the nickname Back2root, became known in the foreign modding scene precisely because of his quality work on creating custom cases for flash drives. For all his mods, he uses a tree, elements from the old mechanical watch for styling and small copper and brass inlays. Each USB drive has an interesting design and a convenient body. For example, here's a stylish flash drive that can hold up to 16 GB of information in a new steampunk-style case:

Almost all Back2root flash drive mods have a similar case design. First, the modder removes the flash drive from the standard case, then makes a wooden base, and then all the decorative elements are attached to this base. Here are some more photos of the most interesting projects of this modder:

It is worth noting that Rob Smith is also involved in modding very compact flash drives. An example of such modding is the stylish steampunk pendant. Inside is a 4 GB flash drive:

All the projects in the photos above refer to the modding of flash drives in the steampunk style, which is especially popular among both Western modders and domestic craftsmen. Modder Shipton Bellinger, which we talked about in detail in one of our articles, is also fond of steampunk mods of USB drives. It works according to the same scheme - first, a wooden base is made, then the body is decorated additional elements, but there are some differences from the work of Rob Smith. For example, as you have seen, Rob Smith installs decorative elements inside the wood base, while Shipton Bellinger prefers to mount them directly to the surface. Another, no less important difference - Rob's projects relate more to the clopunk style, since they only use elements from mechanical watches for decoration, and in Shipton's mods, you can see copper pipes and a huge number of movable handles and rings. In other matters, it's easier to look at everything with your own eyes:

Modder also known under the nickname BasementFoundry has been collecting neat and stylish steampunk flash drive mods for many years. The main rule of his projects is that the body should not only be beautiful, but also comfortable. That is why the modder practically does not use additional decorative elements in his projects. The base is most often made of a copper tube, sometimes durable glass is used in the work. So, let's take a look at one of the most popular projects of this modder. Copper tubes, which at first glance seem completely unnecessary, in fact serve as fixing devices for the flash drive cover. Especially for this, the modder cuts out a small rubber band of the required diameter for the lid:

Of course, talking about modding flash drives in the steampunk style, we could not forget about Steamworkshop, which makes stylish custom-made mods and puts up many of its works for sale through online stores. Like many modders, Steamworkshop has its own, one might say, unique style of modding flash drives. Many techniques are used from project to project, but let's not get ahead of ourselves and consider the projects in more detail. The main materials for modding are copper, brass, durable glass and many additional decorative elements - from gears from mechanical watches to various springs, small screws and rivets. Most mods are supplied with rubber pads by the modder, thanks to which they become waterproof. In almost every flash drive from Steamworkshop, a window is cut out in the case. Through it, you can often see a small crystal of quartz, illuminated by an LED (this stroke was for a long time a kind of business card Steamworkshop), but already in new projects the modder tried to change the established traditions and experiment not only with the shapes of cases for flash drives, but also with the methods of their stylization. So, let's take a look at the photos:

Often, modders use old, seemingly unnecessary things as a basis for the body. Steampunknation did the same. He used an old vacuum tube to create a custom case for the flash drive. Inside the drive was covered with a fine metal mesh and was also illuminated by an LED. The result is a stylish and original work. The only drawback of this project is its relatively fragile case.

A modder under the nickname autumnsteam also sometimes deals with flash drives. The main difference between his works is the use of old brooches and pendants. He especially succeeds in mods of compact USB drives - a base is made of a thick sheet of metal, and decorative elements are attached to it:

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USB flash drive- a common device that everyone who has their own at home probably has Personal Computer... Today there is a wide variety of flash drives. They usually have plastic or metal case, although there are more original options. But what if the body of your flash drive is damaged or for some reason ceases to suit you, and you don’t want to buy a new one? In this article we will tell you how to replace the old plastic or metal case of your flash drive with a new wooden one.

How to make a case for a USB flash drive?

In order to do wooden case for a flash drive we need the following tools:

USB flash drive without case.

A piece of wood.

Drill or other drilling device.

Sandpaper.

Silicone.

Clamps, 2 pcs.

Pencil.

Let's start making!

1. First, determine the size of the body you need and use a saw to cut a rectangle of the appropriate size from a piece of wood at the marked marks.

3. Using a drilling device, cut out non-through holes in the large and medium pieces of wood and a through hole in the smallest piece. The holes should be sized to fit easily and hold the USB stick well. In the middle part, which will serve as a lid, small gaps should be made inside the hole so that the lid can tightly close and open easily.

4. Insert the USB drive into the through hole of the small piece so that the connector protrudes from one side and the rest of the flash drive is on the other. If the flash drive does not fit snugly in the hole, fix it with silicone.

5. Now stick the protruding long part of the flash drive into the hole of the largest piece, after applying hot glue to both parts and using a press, glue them into one body. It is necessary to use a press so that both parts are tightly fastened together, and after grinding, no gaps are visible between them.

6. Now sand the entire body thoroughly with sandpaper to give it a neater and smoother look. You can also cover the case with paint or varnish. Our original USB stick made of wood is ready!

Modification of computers and computer accessories has always been and remains popular all over the world. Modification of flash drives requires special attention, since this allows you to get a unique accessory. We present to your attention the material devoted to the review of the video on modding an old and worn flash drive.

What do we need:
- new building;
- 300 ohm resistor;
- light;
- flash drive;
- glue gun;
- soldering iron.

The author of the video uses a rubber toy bull as a new body.

The first step is to disassemble the USB stick.

Next, you need to take care of the case. To do this, put the board of the toy bull's flash drive. We take a clerical knife and mark the place of the cover of the new case on the toy.

After that, we cut off the toy at the place of the mark, thus obtaining two parts.

The goby, which the author of the idea uses as a body, turned out to be empty. This will greatly facilitate the work of inserting the flash drive into the case.

Now we take a screwdriver and two drills for 3 and 2 mm. With the first drill we drill the mouth of the bull, and with the second - the eyes.

The next step is to solder the resistor to the positive terminal of the LED light.

Then you need to solder the LED to the USB stick. The positive contact, that is, the contact that is soldered to the resistor, is connected to the first leg, and the negative contact to the fourth. Before soldering, you need to put a heat shrink on the LED contacts on the resistor.

It remains only to carefully glue the flash drive board in the new case. To do this, you just need to insert the board into the case and glue it with an abundant amount of glue from a glue gun.

In the second part of the case, that is, the lid, you can glue a small magnet, which will allow you to quickly close the USB flash drive after using it.

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