We’ve all seen the instructables on making a Lego USB Drive, and it seems easy enough to make. All you need is a pen knife, pliers, clear silicone, fine wet and dry paper, two different grades of metal polish, an- perhaps it isn’t as easy as we thought.
Why settle for a plain brick, also, when you can easily make a full Lego car with much less effort?
Or maybe an airplane?
How about a dinosaur?
Alright, maybe I was joking about the dinosaur. We couldn’t find a dinosaur set for under ten dollars. 
To make the airplane, however, all it took us was forty minutes of our precious lunch break and maybe five inches of tape. (If you’re really picky, you can use super glue or even Elmer’s glue - get creative.) You’ll also need a Lego set - here we use an airplane set we bought from Toys R’ Us for $5.99 (plus tax).
I’ve decided to write it in the form of a photo gallery - click on the thumbnails to open the slide show. (I’d recommend clicking the first thumbnail first…since it’s the first one.)
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October 18, 2007
I’m in one of the pictures! xD
October 18, 2007
I have found out (rather accidentally) that the cases on Lexar Firefly USB drives are fairly easy to pop off without much effort.
October 18, 2007
Can you get a pic of it plugged in? Lego rules!
@Leon
I don’t have the Flash drive right now…but I’ll see if I can get it back to take a picture. I think I have a picture of a Lego-car flash drive too.
November 24, 2007
This is handy, my External Hard Drive (which looked like a giant lego) recently died and I have been looking for something that will substitute.
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November 24, 2007
i’ll feel better if u can replace tape w/ sth. else, i mean, sth more secure…
@smp852
We just used tape due to our time constraints - we didn’t have time to wait for it to dry. There’s no reason why you can’t replace tape with glue-stick glue, Elmer’s glue, super glue, or even that sparkly gel glue you see at back to school sales.
November 25, 2007
a USB drive like this:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.4730
would work perfect…now I know what to do with my extra one’s of these.
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WOW,,,JUST WANT TO HAVE A TRY,,BUT YOU KNOW, IT IS HARD TO FIND OUT SUCH METERIALS.
I THINK MAYBE I CAN USE OTHERS INSTEAD.
Nice mod!
November 28, 2007
You need to be careful of zapping the opened flash drive with static shocks, especially in the winter when the air is dry. Only handle the unprotected drive when you are grounded, like touching the computer’s metal case. The water in Elmer’s glue could easily short out the low-voltage circuits, at least until it dries. I would avoid “sparkly” glue as well. Hot melt glue would work well and it’s ready to go as soon as it cools.
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February 12, 2008
toy automobile having front and rear axles on a body respectively supporting wheels, one of the axles being driven by a gear train energized by a twisted elongated member such as a rubber band, the elastic member being energized by twisting it by means of a reciprocable elongated rack extendable axially in opposite directions relative to the body of the automobile, which rack when pulled outwardly actuating the gear train to wind a drive shaft for the elastic member and, when the rack is pushed in retraction into the body, a throwout gear in the train is disconnected to prevent unwinding the elastic member, and a manually operable stop member engages the drive axle to prevent movement thereof until released.
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