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This instructable will show you how to make a hard drive inside of a model car. I find it more aesthetically pleasing to have a model car on your desk rather than a plastic hard drive. When reading engadget one day, I came across this: http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/24/flash-rods-delorean-hard-drive-250-500-jigabytes/. It is essentially a model car with a 500 gig hard drive in it. It looked pretty cool, but it costed $250 and considering that 500 gb hard drives go for ~$50 these days, the price seemed a bit steep. So since I had a 500 gb portable drive and a model car lying around, I queued the music and set to work. This instructable is entered in the usb contest, so PLEASE VOTE!
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1 smallish portable hard drive however many geebies you want (Look in the pics for the one I used) ~ $50
1 1/18 scale maisto/bburago/mattel model car (I used a maisto one that they sell at costco for $7) but you can find a decent one for around $20 that will look good on your desk.
1 phillips screw driver
1 hammer/scissors/pen/knife/spoon/fork/phone/soda/ipod/thing that you can break plastic with
30 minutes
1 1/18 scale maisto/bburago/mattel model car (I used a maisto one that they sell at costco for $7) but you can find a decent one for around $20 that will look good on your desk.
1 phillips screw driver
1 hammer/scissors/pen/knife/spoon/fork/phone/soda/ipod/thing that you can break plastic with
30 minutes
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Cool idea, haha.
Nice.
One thing you might consider is rotating and re-saving your pictures (Preview can do it). A lot of them are sideways, and I'bles doesn't have software on the server to do the rotation for you. Just upload new versions and replace the ones here.