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Homebrewed LEGO USB Dongle
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Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:29:50 GMT
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The LEGO USB Dongle
The whole thing consists of 7 1x3 bricks of which one is used as a cap for the
USB socket, there are also two 1x3 plates at the top and the bottom to ‘seal’
the (w)hole thing.
All glueing was made with Cyan Oacrylate Glue - (CA). It may need a bit more
work on the finnsh, but I’m pleased with the result.
The USB-memory is a Cig@r-Pro 32Mb memory. (http://www.cigarusb.com)
If there’s someone thinking of doing the same thing I hope you can find a
smaller USB-memory since this one fits only after extensive work up of the
pices. Now it fits really snuggly though.. :)
Now to the real question, why destroy nice LEGO just to use it as shell around a
piece of electronics?!
I’m not sure, but the main reason was that the orignal casing was really bad and
it was broken, on top it all, when using the USB device there where no place to
attach the cap. That problem is now solved! :)
Disclamer (Sort of)
I have had the USB memory for a while and the idea to use LEGO as a casing came
to me for over six month ago, but since I like my LEGO and I was hesitant to
sacrifice any precious LEGO pices for this project it was dormant for a while.
It all changed recently when I went to a trip to US and got a chance to visit a
LEGO shop with Pick-a-Brick, unfortunately they only had pink 1x3 bricks!
Perhaps that was a good thing since it would have been harder to ‘destroy’, lets
say, dark grey 1x3 bricks!
I’m sorry to announce that LEGO bricks was harmed during the work to make this
USB casing.. However I sincerly think that LEGO pices is far better suited for
this purpose than other cheap LEGO look-a-like pices.
PLMKWYT!
//Harri Manni
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: Homebrewed LEGO USB Dongle
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| Very nice! I have a Cigar Pro wasting away somewhere, maybe I'll convert it. The US Modular 32Mb I have looks like it would work with 6 1x3s. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home (20 years ago, 7-Jan-04, to lugnet.general)
| | | Re: Homebrewed LEGO USB Dongle
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| (...) -- snip -- I'm always amazed at the things people manage to house in LEGO. I seem to recall someone putting their PDA guts into a LEGO case a long time ago. Very cool shtuff! If I ever find a cheap memory stick, I might have to make one of (...) (20 years ago, 7-Feb-04, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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