Modding Rubiks Cube Coolness!

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  1. TechZimmy

    TechZimmy What's a Dremel?

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    Thats right! a USB Rubiks Memory Cube! The pen drive I had fit perfectally inside the cube, and although it will never actually be rotatable ever again, it is sooo much cooler.I'm not sure what else I'm going to put on it. Perhaps lights, I dunno. Yes I solved it. My best time is 2 min 10 seconds
     
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  2. TekMonkey

    TekMonkey I enjoy cheese.

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    Pretty cool, but kinda defeats the purpose of having a little usb drive to carry around :hehe:

    It would be cool if someone built a rubiks cube that had semi-transparent, colored cubes with lights in it :eek:
     
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  3. Jedateach

    Jedateach What's a Dremel?

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    Very cool work man

    Atleast you put it into a finished cube :p

    nothing worse than a Rubix Cube that isnt done

    Lights in it would be pretty cool some sort activity lighting etc would be cool
     
    Jedateach, 5 Jun 2004
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  4. ajack

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    Looks nice, but the drive's not really portable anymore is it? [Unless you never take it anywhere of course :)]

    [EDIT: sorry, TM got there first!]
     
    ajack, 5 Jun 2004
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  5. KAMIKAZE-FREAK

    KAMIKAZE-FREAK What's a Dremel?

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    nice job
    but 1 thing still bothers me
    how do you connect the drive to your pc?
    with an extension cord?

    and i have an :idea: for modding it
    the colors are green, blue, red and yellow right?
    whell those colours all are available in leds :rock:
    a blue side, a red side etc
    do the math

    i think that would look really cool
    but its all up to you
    keep moddin stuff ya hear ;)
     
    KAMIKAZE-FREAK, 6 Jun 2004
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  6. TechZimmy

    TechZimmy What's a Dremel?

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    ya the pen drive came w/ a cord so i use that. The colors are red yellow white green blue orange red so I suppose I could wire one up to each side but where would I get the power from? only 5v in a usb cable right?
     
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  7. theflinger

    theflinger What's a Dremel?

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    make it hidden with a spring so it can pop out, and you havve a stealth USB drive :D
     
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  8. TechZimmy

    TechZimmy What's a Dremel?

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    no, its too cramped in there to do that. The bottom of the drive is sitting on the bottom layer of plastic on the very bottom cube. Its a really tight fit and I had to sand a whole bunch of plastic.
     
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  9. Acid Burn

    Acid Burn ..look but don't touch..

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    cool idea! but this doesn't belong under "project logs"....
     
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  10. TechZimmy

    TechZimmy What's a Dremel?

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    its a work in progress. where should it go?
     
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  11. Stormtrooper

    Stormtrooper Shh...

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    This gives me an idea.
     
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  12. FILTHY1337

    FILTHY1337 Senior Overclocker

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    under mods unless u plan to do work in the near futuer
     
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  13. G-gnome

    G-gnome Peter Dickison

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    Awesome TechZimmy! I love the look of the Rubiks Cube. :thumb:

    I moved the thread to modding as it doesn't really qualify for project logs (no work in progress pics, it's a finished mod, etc). :)

    Nice work. How does it go when your USB ports are low down near the surface of a desk (e.g. LianLi front USB ports), is there enough room to insert it?
     
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  14. robotguy9000

    robotguy9000 What's a Dremel?

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    lol very nice... they have alot of stuff like that in japan.. jsut check out this USB ducky... its suposedly called the iDuck...


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    robotguy9000, 6 Jun 2004
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  15. fuzzygoblin

    fuzzygoblin What's a Dremel?

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    :read::read::read::read::read::read::read::read: :read::read::read::read::read::read::read: :read::read::read:
    READ THE THREAD, they already established the fact that he uses and extension cable.
     
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