USB case

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My car had recently developed a new rattle. I finally traced it down to the USB thumb drive that has some MP3s on it. The USB thumb drive is a small circuit board sitting in a plastic housing. The circuit board just sort of floats in the housing, causing a loud rattle when I drive.

Now, I could reach into my box of USB thumb drives and find one that does not rattle. … OR! I could spend an hour designing a new housing, cutting a few prototypes out of cardboard, and then making it out of draft board and acrylic! The final pieces are connected with rivets.

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No more rattling! (And hey! I didn’t know that the board has a small LED that flashes briefly when the drives is accessed. Now I can see it blink.)

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I love that you can see the inner workings, and it reminds me of this. :laughing:

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Thinking that if you add MP3s until the drive is almost full that the tunes won’t have room to rattle.

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I was going to say I liked seeing the circuits but @kittski beat me to it.

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Looks great

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I like the way you think @dr.krawetz. Why go the easy way whey you can do it your way!

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Love this. I hate unknown rattles in my car

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I will endanger the wellbeing of every living creature in my immediate vicinity trying to find a rattle or squeak. It’s my OCD superpower.

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