Lego USB Stick

Step 5 Finished

The finished product, the second image shows the original case for the memory stick and the final image shows the LED in action.

I was tempted to make an end cap, but it'd annoy me and I'd only loose it.

Have fun :)

Comments

[vtheawesome]

i made mine a spaceship :3 T

[JoshTheGeek]

Here's mine without modifying anything, thumbdrive included:
The stuff outside keeps the (blue) cap on. The thumb is removable, but it's still fun.

[ccobra]

'-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' lol lol kool

[Crushinator]

Awesome!¡!¡!¡!
(:<{)
Ha ha guy with moustache

[megaproductions]

i was lucky and had a smaller memory stick, so it fitted in one 2 x4 stud brick and a 2x2 brick for the lid.
thanks for the inspiration!

[thedraganime]

mac pwns pc deal with it

[Smasher555]

But they made computers before iPods, smart one. PWNED

[mizzoufan96]

awesome
but Macs suck
Apple wasn't put on earth to make computers only ipods
just my opinion

[joeywins]

im with u man

[madeline.jenny]

 you do know that they invented the computer mouse, yes? 

[jblue22]

The mouse was invest by a prof at stanford and was originally deployed by Xerox.

Apple only made it mainstream with a personal computer.

[mikeeve]

Unfortunately,  your misperception of computer history is incorrect. There are very few new ideas in computing, from HTML to the mouse, someone else probably laid the groundwork before the big boys picked it up and made it a household item or standard.

[slurp812]

Um, NO. Jobs didn't invent anything, he is very good at stealing ideas, and marketing them.

Mouse inventor:

[mizzoufan96]

nope i didnt.
but a mouse isn't a computer, yes? lol :P

[darksword]

:{0. guy with a moustach

[ferrari484]

cool that you have a mac :D my brother has a imac and believe me that thing is great

[MrFunman]

i have a imac and it's AWESOME

[martianman]

 MAC RULES ALL.

[frogzilla]

 yey, i am on the new imac, the silver one!

[Kasm279]

lol, i have a mac, too! mine is a '99 iMac G3 @333Mhz :D

[Kasm279]

heh, i just got 2 more, a blue and white PowerMac G3/400 and an All-In-One PowerMac G3/266 (rare)

[ferrari484]

I am going for a emac 1ghz or 1.25ghz secondhand i trying to get 1 for a nice prise

[Chromatica]

if you have a mac why do u have a microsoft icon

[zoltzerino]

sony psps run at 333 mhz lolololol. zzzz

[Kasm279]

it probably has a PPC in it (i know the PS3 does)

[sprout_less]

same here i love macs though i have a G5

[Gamer917]

i prefer intel macs running windows :-P

[ferrari484]

me too less problems to bad i don't have a mac or imac yet

[ferrari484]

lol my brother has the 2,6ghz whit 4gb and 320gb hard disk and 2tb of extern memory and crazy enough there almost full, 500gb to back up

[snowluck2345]

i like my mac pro 2nd gen dual 2.8hrz quadcore 10gb ram 500gb hardrive and soon to have a gtx 285

[Fieldownage]

I love 'em ;)

[MrFunman]

Cool

[joshman458]

 My flashdrive fell apart not too long ago, and I remember seeing a Lego USB on this site. I decided to do it (I haven't started yet) and as I came to the end of this instructable, I realized that I have the same Flash Drive as you, except mine has like my dad's company on it haha.

[thelazytooth]

lets hope you dan't have a 3 year old little brother who plays with lego....

[neivadan]

ya and hope none of your pets plays with it then ur creation is done for but if u od have any

[zebrahotline]

wont the stick over heat because of the L.E.D and all the silicone within the block?

[girrrrrrr2]

L.E.D.s put out really little heat unless they are over powered... and then it is not that much heat... it will burn out before anything bad happens

[Kasm279]

the flash memory gets quite hot, especially when your using it as an external hard drive (the laptop has no internal one.) thats why big sticks of have heatsinks on them

[girrrrrrr2]

maybe send us a link to one of these big ones because i habe never seen one with a heat sink and i have seen one that claimed to have around 30 gigs of space in it... (flash drive not external hdd)

[Antpopper]

I've never seen a flash drive with a heatsink, and I can't Imagine one ever would ever be necessary, I have a 2 gb optima pro, and it doesn't even get warm even after hours of use as an external harddrive. Also, usb specifications limit the maximum power to 500ma, so the maximum power and usb device can possible need to dissipate is 2.5w, which that brick could do just fine.