Sawed-Off Flash Drive

Holy crap-- somebody just went and TORE MY FREAKING USB CABLE IN HALF while it was still attached to my laptop!!!

No-- wait-- sorry. That's just my USB drive. My bad. Never mind.

Step 1 What You'll Need

Needed Materials:
- A Kingmax Super Stick Flash Drive - A 1 GB version is used in this one
- One USB A-B Cable
- Devcon 5 Minute Epoxy Gel, preferably the same color as the cable
- Some electrical tape

Needed tools:
- Hobby Knife
- Screwdriver

Comments

[PKM]

If OP is from Evil Mad Scientist labs,
a) Why would they say "credits to"
b) Why would they misspell their own website?

I can only conclude that this is plagiarised. Flag.

Interestingly, on this instructable edrainkona admonishes someone else for posting an Instructable that can be found elsewhere. If there's one thing I cant stand it's a hypocrite.

[edrainkona]

First of all, I am not form Evil Mad Scientist labs. I am just republishing this for the Instructables community. Secondly, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, plagiarism is defined as "to use (another's production) without crediting the source". I gave acknowledgments where necessary, therefore republishing this while giving credits is not plagiarism. Third, regarding my "hypocritical" comment, he took the idea from another site without acknowledging the original site, whereas I did. I was only saying that he should acknowledge the original site, not criticizing him for the fact that this Instructable can be found elsewhere. Finally, your "cant" doesn't have a apostrophe.

[theque]

what acknowledgment? I dont really see one.

[firemanfu]

who cares about the apostrophe you spelled from as form

[Patrik]

I appreciate your good intentions, but at the very minimum, you would need to credit the original author, Windell H. Oskay, and not just Evil Mad Scientist Labs.

For example, if you track the photographs to oskay's flickr set on the topic, you'll see that they are labelled "some rights reserved". Specifically, they are free to share, but only if you credit the original author.

Similar issues come up with the text itself, etc. Note for example that you've picked "license: Attribution" for this instructable. That means that technically anyone would have to credit you as being the original author. I.e., technically, you've just stolen his credit! I don't think Instructables even has a license option where you can credit somebody else for something you post.

Reposting somebody else's work without their permission is a no-no, in my opinion. Good intentions or not...

[Weissensteinburg]

It's a no-no in the law's opinion, too.

[Weissensteinburg]

Not to mention, this same instructable was posted the other day.

[Patrik]

I emailed Wendell - a simple Yea or Nae from him would settle things. No need for the rest of us to get our of shape if he doesn't mind...

[edrainkona]

I agree. I was going to do that, but I didn't know what to say.

[Patrik]

Huh - and I hadn't even noticed that the original author has already given his opinion on this issue.

See the post by user oskay - Windell H. Oskay - below. Heck, I'll just repost it here, for emphasis:

Instructables IS NOT a place for you to publish stolen content. Not cool.

This instructable should be removed NOW.

His content - his call...

[ll.13]

Well said.

[theque]

i cant believe you would actually copy this after the site was posted in the forums....

[edrainkona]

Yea, because this is only posted in the forums. /sarcasm

[GorillazMiko]

This isn't your idea. Evil Mad Scientist Labs-- they deserve credit. You even took their images. I was going to do this Instructable on my own and post images of me doing it with credit going to them, but you just basically copied the whole thing. I would give it a +1, but no. Sorry.

[zjharva]

here is what Oskay really wrote that was apparently deleted by drainkona :
" I think that I was pretty unambiguous in my earlier comment.

Even if you had credited the pictures properly (which you did not), the text that you copied from my web site is *not* released under the CC license. "Your" instructable certainly doesn't fall under fair use: it just falls under stolen and slimy. Putting your own name as author on my idea, photos, and (slightly modified) text does not make it your own.

I am happy to be a member of instructables and I visit daily, contributing where I can. If I had wanted to post this set of instructions here, I certainly would have done so. However, as an author, *I* get to be the one to make that choice.

Even so, this isn't even new to instructables. It's been posted here more than a week ago in an appropriate manner.

Legal and moral issues aside, what the heck are you doing posting this here? Instructables is a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) community, not a LSEDIFY (Let-Someone-Else-Do-It-For-You) community. With all of the creative, unusual, simple, and brilliant things that people are doing with their flash drives, why not come up with your own to add to the fun?

- Windell. "

[oskay]

InstructablesIS NOT a place for you to publish stolen content. Not cool.

This instructable should be removed NOW.

[zjharva]

amen to that! i sent you an email before i found this comment. this is so bad. he should get kicked off. edrainkona is a loser! TAKE THIS INSTRUCTABLE OFF! NOW! I'M NOT KIDDING!

[xboxteen01]

Stolen?

[zjharva]

yeah it was, go to evilmadscientist.com

[Zeroth Labs]

This makes me sad. I think you should take this down. No matter how you spin it you still took it from someone else.

[xboxteen01]

This looks really cool and is a great idea.

[cheezstake]

This is one of the more creative stick drive mods I've seen. +1 for great pictures!

[rimar2000]

Good idea!