I am sure many of you are wondering why in the world you would make a VHS USB flash drive. That’s exactly the point.
By making one of these VHS USB flash drives, you can easily and inconspicuously hide all your important data as part of your old VHS collection that might be gathering dust anyways.
Alan from HackedGadgets has done it again, he’s made this cool retro-gadget and wants to share with you, every little detail and things you’d need to know to make one yourself, enjoy. Great stuff Alan, keep ’em comin’ are u twittering yet?
This project turns a old VHS Tape into a USB storage drive. It looks like a normal VHS cassette tape except for the USB cable that sticks out of the shell. All of the project guts are hiding in the areas around the clear windows so that when you have a quick look at the front of the tape all seems normal. When plugged into a computer the VHS Tape Storage Drive will act as a normal USB drive except when the drive is accessed the tape reel will turn and the windows will light up. This will keep at least one of my VHS tapes out of the landfill.
Video:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkutW7eVh5M
