Hacker flash drive from BIOS chips

Looking at all kinds of cases for flash drives, both commercial and di-ay-vaynye, after reading a number of articles on modding, an irresistible desire was born to try yourself in this kind of creativity (disassemble, break, assemble). This desire coincided with another irresistible desire - get rid of the native case of my USB Flash Drive device.

Having scouted an angle in the room littered with the more ancient achievements of the IT industry, he began to scan these things for flash-like elements.

- Yeah, having taken one of the motherboards in my hands, my opinion almost immediately fell on the BIOS chip, it seems to fit, everything seems to be simple. Rusted to GoogleIndex. However, my search did not end with a heap of photos and reading the manuals for making these boom drives.
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Therefore, the purpose of this post to eliminate this misunderstanding. Moreover, as a result of customizing, you’ll get quite a good thing.

For the manufacture we need 4 types of memory:

• flash drive,
• standard chips from an old motherboard, or video card,
• three-inch floppy disk
• ordinary human memory, preferably with an information storage period of more than an hour))

Glue is also needed, preferably second, knife, pliers or strong fingers.

1. But first, choose a flash drive:

The smaller the flash drive, the better, the color of the plastic in which the contacts are soldered must be black, otherwise it will not be in a childish way (not in the color of chip-chips).

2. Breaking

In principle, with the case you can not be careful, you will no longer need it, you will have to care if the manufacturer of your flash drive showed excessive consciousness and soldered the tips of the tin sheath to the board. For dismantling, you can use a soldering iron or, again, strong fingers. I was lucky with one flash drive; I had to use a nail warmed over gas against the rest.

3. We get the chips

The chips get quite well, if you are careful and do not get them together with the connector soldered to the board. Sticky tear off unnecessary, they are usually holographic and nice shimmer spectrum.

4. Glue

We measure the flash drive, on the slamming of the new case (it is customary to connect the chips, as shown in the previous photo) and finally glue it to the chips. It is desirable that the glue does not spill out.

Also at this stage it is necessary to put the fastener inward for a catch, it can be in the center or from the side, depending on whether you are carrying it around your neck or with a key fob.

5. Add volume

To restore the performance of the flash drive, in particular the size of the plug with contacts, in order for it to properly enter the USB connector and stick there we will need thin plastic, just the one from which our floppy disks are made.

Now you have the answer to the question: “what for do you keep a stack of these old floppy disks, if you don't even have a floppy in your computer?”



We cut out 3 pads: we glue one on a wide plane (Zay, let's go on the one without contacts), the other two on the sides. We measure. Lightly grind with a regular knife.

Done!






If you wish, you can give her a name ...
"- Okay, then I will leave you a flash drive with price lists, only you be careful, by the way it is just like your name is Marina."

And if no joke, then Marina flash drive makes a certain impression on people. For example, dragging a resume to a recruitment agency on it, all the staff began to offer me only admin jobs and was quite confident in my competence, without looking at what I wrote.

Also requests to help with a computer and questions of such a plan have become frequent:
- Listen, is it true that with the help of “artmani” you can “webmoney” generate it?

I hope my post will move to action.