A-Data DashDrive UD320 OTG USB Flash Drive

It’s another Android friendly USB flash drive. If you need a solid external storage for your smartphone or tablet, the A-Data DashDrive OTG USB drive may be suitable for you. The DashDrive is a multi purposed OTG USB flash drive that measures 40 x 15 x 8mm and weights 8g.As we can see from the images, the OTG...
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Make A Cheap USB Powered Fan

Find out how to make a cheap yet quite efficient fan from parts purchased at the dollar store. This fan can be made for about $2 (plus tax). It would be even better if you can get a double ended USB wire, in which case you could make 2 USB fans for $3 (plus tax). That definitely beats the $15 or $20 stores...
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USB Rocket Launcher

The arms race is on. The workplace has become a dangerous place, but once upon a time, it was all a laugh. Back in the day, your workmates chased each other with squirt-guns, then disc-guns. Everybody laughed when somebody brought in the harmless Airzooka. Gleefully, somebody brought in a marshmallow blaster.Then...
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Make a DIY USB Thermometer

This is a project to interface sensors to an USB port for collecting weather related data such as temperature. The firmware supports many different sensors and interfaces. At the moment, temperature, relative humidity and atmospheric pressure can be measured, logged and graph...
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Make your Own USB LCD Controller

This is a guide for making an LCD that connects to your computer using USB, primarily intended to be extern...
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Hack a USB Cable to Power Peripherals

Cut a USB Cord, use two of the wires, attach them to a small motor, make fan blades out of an AOL cd, and wallah, you’ve got your own external f...
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Make a Glowing USB Turtle

Take any transparent figure, drill a hole in it, stick an LED inside, and POOF – the perfect cheap n easy LED Charm or Christmas Prese...
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Make a USB Mini Fridge

Now that we’re seeing those 12 volt camper coolers turning up at garage sales and thrift stores (I found one for $2.50), here’s a neat little idea for turning it into a customizable mini-fridge powered by a USB port!...
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Build your own USB Thumbdrive

In this article I will walk you through Project: Make a USB drive from conception to finished product. Step by detailed step. No detail spared. So in-depth you’ll need a fricking snork...
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Run Windows XP from a USB Drive

Learn step by step how to simply run XP from your USB Drive. Basically, download a file, click agree, next, next, finish, and viola! XP via U...
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How to Hack and get Free PayPerView in Hotels

You’re stuck at a hotel, there’s nothing on TV and you don’t want to fork over the $10 to watch a PPV movie.  Learn to bypass the hotel’s charges by routing the TV signal through WinTV, a device which routes the incoming video signal to your computer via USB.  Basically, it gives you access to...
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Download Google Chrome OS from a USB Drive

We just showed you how to install Google’s new Chrome OS and now you can install it directly from a USB drive.  In case you haven’t heard, Google announced they will be launching their Chrome operating system. To sum it up for you: Google Chrome OS is a basically just the Google Chrome browser transformed...
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Run Ubuntu Linux from a Thumb Drive in Windows 7

Many of us who want to have dual operating systems simply split our hard drive and install both. Not exactly a complex procedure these days. Why just a few weeks ago we showed you how to run Win7 and Ubuntu on the same machine. However, instead of hassling with partitions, simply install an entire Ubuntu OS...
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Eye Catching LCD Video Glasses

While you may think that the glasses shown below would be rather expensive, you can actually make them for less than $15.  It’s as simple as buying two small digital photo frames on eBay for $6 and sacrifice an old pair of glasses.  Of course, you can’t see out of them  The overall idea is...
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Patriotic USB Powered American Flag

Happy 4th of July from HacknMod! Here’s a quick, simple project for your 4th of July celebration: a computer playing the anthem along with a flying American flag illuminated and powered via USB. The setup is simple and easy to put together. The project put together by Evan Roth’s project is definitely salute...
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Update: Whistled Platform Upgraded for Simple Word Recognition

Some people may remember the whistled platform I [limpkin] designed a while back, which recognizes different whistles to control your lighting. Recently, I designed a firmware that transforms the board into a word recognition device, as the 50MHz ARM Cortex M4′s processing capabilities are good enough to do...
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Embed a USB Hub into your Desk

Here’s a dirt simple weekend project for you: Pick up a USB hub for a few bucks and literally embed it in your desk for ease of connecting.  That way, when you want to connect a camera or other peripheral device, it’s a dirt simple, cheap, and quick project for the weekend.Although it’s pretty self explanatory,...
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Embed a USB Hub Into Your Desk

Here’s a dirt simple weekend project for you: Pick up a USB hub for a few bucks and literally embed it in your desk for ease of connecting.That way, when you want to connect a camera or other peripheral device, it’s a dirt simple, cheap, and quick project for the weekend.Although it’s pretty self explanatory,...
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