USB Compact Flash Reader....in an altoids tin.

Yeah I know the Altoids tin has been turned into everything but a camode at this point, but this is my first "project" that I've attempted. I was looking around on here and I saw the NES controller mod and it sparked my motivation to do this. The entire thing took about 45 minutes.

Step 1: The first thing I did was take apart the compact flash reader.

Comments

[babamoto]

What was the source of that card reader board, Michael? trying to dupe the elegance of your build and all i can find are these mini keychain readers, which frankly are not cool

[Silversleeves]

Great idea! I usually keep unfinished clove ciggies in my empty Altoids tin. Question: as Altoids tins are magnetic -- I just checked one with a kitchen magnet -- wouldn't there be a little cumulative RF going on with the hot electronics from the card-reader? Kind of shortens the life of the components, don't it? Okay, so maybe it Isn't such a great idea. Nice to see someone "thinking outside the tin," though. BZT

[Derin]

you did this at oregon

[struckbyanarrow]

i know whit im gunna make get and altoids tin and on each side make a ps2 controller plug thingy with one wire going up to plug into the ps2, 5 people can play!

[pyroboy212]

it would be cool trieing to make a 3 or 4 port usb hub.
cool idea!! ^_

[ultrauber]

you should make an upgrade so that it can read the more common sd card

[Benedictine]

I like this! All I've got to do is get some Altoids but I don't like peppermints, anyone want some?

[mrbob1000]

i like that idea plus its cool lookin you should have a led inside so when its running it lookes like its got neon glow inside of it

[aiden120000]

britan isn't that great

[Ian01]

Is that a SanDisk ImageMate?

[gigman]

It would be really cool if you could put the usb cable insde the tin to make it alot more portalbe or make it retractable

[MichaelMcNair]

That would have mad eit much cooler, however the card reader that I used would just fit in the case. With a smaller reader it might work. Great idea. If you get it to work let me know.