A portrait of the floppy disk as a USB drive

Charles Mangin of Option 8 made a USB floppy disk the fast way: by cramming it in there: "I extended the original cable from the business card USB drive, and routed it through a small piece of plastic, glued in place just inside the opening. This lets out just enough of the cable to plug into a hub or laptop, but prevents me pulling the wires all the way out." Charles' Flickr set [via Technabob]

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turn_self_off

i suspect one could strip the plug (there are usb drives that are like that already) and so fit it all inside the thickness of a single floppy. I just wonder what the capacity would be if one filled the physical space of a floppy with the chips of a usb drive fully…
Anonymous

For the lulz, obviously.

The same reason that they make humping dog flash drives, or sushi flash drives, or banana flash drives (just look at it!)… a splash of creativity and uniqueness in the sameness of a chunk of silicon and plastic.
option8

i’ve retooled the original project and created a how-to video for a slimmer, one-floppy version. the howto video is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojNYill9oBM

share and enjoy!
nixiebunny

Uh, why?
- Anonymous
  
  Because it can be done. Sometimes this is sufficient reason.
jimkirk

What would be REALLY cool is if the capacity was only 1.44 MB.
Anonymous

Why not? This makes me a little nostalgic for those old floppies (which weren’t really floppy anymore, so I guess I’m really dating myself). Ten years ago they were everywhere, and we had to cart them around to get things between home and work. Now I doubt I could find a single one in my house, and we don’t own a computer that still has a drive for them. Shoving a USB drive into one is a pretty cool idea!
- JetPackTuxedo
  
  I have BOXES of floppy disks sitting around, AND the computer I am typing on at this very moment has a floppy drive on it (Which is actually detached in exchange for a faster DVD drive).
Anonymous

Aren’t those actually two floppies?
Still awesome though.