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Want to make a flash drive that nobody in a modern office would even think about taking? Hide it in a pink eraser and it's secure in this digital age....
You can get a couple of erasers in an office supply store or an art store. They're cheap. The flash drive I got at an office supply store. I got a 1 ...
One eraser is used for the flash drive and the other will serve as the cap. You'll want to use almost all of one eraser for the drive and about half f...
The plastic case on my flash drive was easy to pull apart. Just work a fingernail between the pieces and pull it apart. Once it's open you can behol...
I grabbed a rotary tool and quickly dug out a gap in each piece. Keep testing the fit with the flash drive until it's nice and snug. The same thing go...
Take a moment to admire the results and then put that flash drive to work! Put some files on there to print out elsewhere and make it earn its keep.
As people have noted several times in the comments, you can buy something like this at Target now. Checking on the site, I found it here. It's also li...
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I have a kingston 2gb data traveller, help on taking it apart?
The key itself is a "hollow" rubber "cap". This allows the hollow base to collapse when the key is pressed.
Think of cupping your hand, palm down, on a table. A button push is like flattening your hand onto the table.
On the bottom of the key, inside the cap (think of this as a bowl) at the base (the deepest part of the bowl) is embedded carbon. It will not be as shiny as the rubber. (If you are still thinking cupped hand, it would be in the middle of your palm.)
The PCB where the carbon will hit looks like fingers on two hands that are flat on a table with the fingers alternating or interlaced.
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The carbon makes a contact between the "fingers" of both "hands". There will be some resistance (as in Ohms law) that can be measured - it goes from an open circuit to a closed circuit. The resistance doesn't really matter at some point, it is less than an infinite (open circuit) value.
And - for normal rubber, any voltage/current strong enough to make it thru a rubber insulator will jusrt fry the rubber.