How to make a USB thumb drive gift more memorable

A USB thumb drive is both small and handy, but an ordinary thumb drive is not really a cool present to give (unless it's packed with giga bytes, of course).

I wanted one of those fancy Japanese inspired pen drives, looking like a car or a sushi bite, to give away, but they are very hard to come by in Norway. So I started looking for instructables showing how to make one by myself. But all the projects I found were either time consuming and difficult, or the parts were too hard to find. So, wandered different toy stores, and found... a toy doll.

The 1 GB thumb drive I already had bought happened to have a "durable rubber construction". Now, wouldn't that make me able to sew this pen drive firm inside the toy doll?

This is a low-priced project, with prices varying depending on thumb drive size and how sophisticated doll you find.

Step 1 What and with

This idea is based on a toy doll and a rubber coated thumb drive, and the technical skill of sewing.

I had might not thought of this if it wasn't for the rubber coating, so if you can not find a thumb drive of this kind, you might have to experiment with glue. I tried once with a regular thumb drive, and attach an elastic band to the doll to fold around the thumb drive, sort of like a mitten. That turned out to be too difficult for me, but also an idea if you like.

So, here is the list of what you need:

1 toy doll of your preferences (i found these $0.90 ones at IKEA)
1 rubber coated USB thumb drive (this one works perfect)

1 sewing thread of perfect color
1 sewing needle
1 pair of tweezers
1 tiny sharp knife thingie, called seam ripper or stitch ripper

Comments

[copycat42]

this is soooo wrong on sooo many levels. i am now traumatized for life.

[thefunktopus]

I agree!! (Larksflem look where the drive is coming out of.)

[hornbadoing]

its coming out of its mouth. grow up.

[larskflem]

please explain :)

[red-king]

thats where an octopuss's mouth is... it doesn't seem as wrong if you know that fact...

[sammiechii]

^^ Very Cute I like it

[Drydara]

i live in japan on a military base i could send you some

[davidturner666]

I want to know where you got the cute little octopus from ^^

[Batness]

Ikea "1 toy doll of your preferences (i found these $0.90 ones at IKEA)"

[waffleman]

poor little eeyore

[cheating-master]

my usb momo (momo is from avatar)

[waffleman]

is that zaboomafoo?

[Foaly7]

If the drive was a usb card reader, you could open his head and use a small zipper to put the card into the drive.

[Hoboman]

No wonder Eeyore is so depressed and sad, he got a thumb drive up his butt! :P

[imrobot]

wow you just made me burst out laughing on the floor lol your hilarious

[dombeef]

I'll call him NANERPUS!!!!!!!! lol

[CapnTac]

I have this same exact Octopus plushie.

[foxtrot4697]

same here, exept mine is more than 30x bigger

[Mouserz]

oh my god, its like they're giving birth.

[cowscankill]

-.- More like it is eating the thumbdrive...

[llvllatrix]

I made a Moogle

[redfangratthing]

haha dude that moogle is awesome

[Pattytoboston]

Suggestion, as a ring of hot glue around the top of the drive, sow through that?

[larskflem]

yupp, that might work :)

[Pattytoboston]

add*

[bubba77]

thats pretty awesome. i happened to have a blue octopus sorta like that lying around. i made this and not only is it functional it makes me laugh every time i see it. thanks for making this

[larskflem]

i'd like to see some pictures of it! :)

[Tobita]

a usb drive is sticking out of Eor's but hahahahhaha LOL

[schorhr]

Neat! I once added LEDs to one of these Ikea stuffed animals as eyes, and I am pretty sure adding two low current LEDs that are driven from the USB would be possible ;-)

[larskflem]

good idea, i might try that next time

[capricorn]

OMG! That ass has a pen drive up his .... :P :)) Joking. I find that extremely sweet. nice work, and I relaly mean it :)

[threecheersfornick]

Nice! I might have to try that...

[BLIzKrIEg]

its like the name of that old james bond movie.. OCTA-pussy..lol

[larskflem]

thanks for all your comments! you are right - it is comming out of its ass, and it is the donkey from winnie the pooh. as i mentioned in the project: find the most suitable seam... ;) >captain pedantic: thanks for your help on the seam/stitch ripper. project description updated

[Darkshot]

wicked cool

[!Andrew_Modder!]

cool!! but looks a bit odd that eore one looks like hes got a ***** in his butt or hes popin some brownies :-P but cool indead!

[GitarGr8]

I'm pretty sure the octopus would have a beak located where the thumb drive is, not a butt.

[Weissensteinburg]

Eeyore is not the octopus, it's the donkey from Winnie the Pooh.

[!Andrew_Modder!]

lol but come on man doesnt it look like its got somthin comin out of its A$$? lol, witch is cool in a twisted way :D

[Weissensteinburg]

It does, I was just telling GitarGr8 that you meant the donkey, not the octopus.