How To: USB Cigar With LED at Tip
How about a real Cigar that glows when connected and stores data on the USB memory? You can build this authentic smelling USB Cigar flash drive yourself in jest 10 or so easy steps.
- A thick cigar
- An USB flash disk of small dimensions
- Some wire, 2 x LEDs (red!), 1 x 10K resistor
- Wood primer
- Some tape
- A short USB extension cable
- Very thin paper, the size of a stamp
- Cutter
- Drill and bits
- X-Acto knives set
- Files
- Soldering iron, solder
- Desolder kit (e.g. desoldering braid)
- Hot melt glue and gun
- Bore out the Cigar
- Wood prime the internal leaves
- Take apart the flash drive for impregnating into Cigar
- Add a power on LED
- Insert electronics into Cigar body
- Glue the ends
- Enjoy
Matt LeBoff
Kicking around in technology since 2002. I like to write about technology products and ideas, but at the consumer level understanding. Some tech, but not too techie.