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Almost everyone has USB flash drives today. But despite all the diversity, the range of housings for such devices is quite limited. Why not make a case for the flash drive yourself? It's not as difficult as it seems, you just need to spend a little time. But you will become the owner of a unique thing.

So let's get started! Following step by step instructions, we will make a case for our USB flash drive from bricks from children's construction set Lego.

This is what she will look like

Tools and materials
Penknife
Pliers
Several Lego bricks
Super glue
Sandpaper
Metal polish
Flash drive

Step 1: Body Base

Internal elements are broken

USB memory cards are available different sizes. We will be packaging a fairly large board. Therefore, we will need a Lego brick of 6×3 cylindrical seating elements (let’s agree to call them “dots”).

Using a penknife, you need to trim all the internal partitions of the brick, and then break them out using pliers.

We use two more low-profile bricks with dimensions of 4×2 and 2×2 “points” to create the lid. Also for the lid you will need a low-profile element 1x6 “dots” (for the lid you can use other combinations of construction parts, or you can simply take exactly the same brick as for the base of the body (6x3) and carefully cut it with a jigsaw top part parallel to the horizontal plane).

Using superglue, glue the lid elements together to create a part measuring 6x3 “dots”.

Step 2. Install the board

Board in case

At the end of the case we cut out a groove for the USB connector, and after a little adjustment using a penknife we ​​install the device into the case.

Step 3: Mounting the board

Fill the body with silicone

We place brick scraps on the bottom of the case and ensure that the board is parallel to the horizontal plane and does not press through. We fill all the remaining space in the case with transparent silicone, sealing it to reduce the possibility of any movement of the flash card inside the case.

It is important to use transparent silicone, since the indicator LED will need to shine through it.

Step 4. Gluing and polishing

Cleaning the edges

Polishes of different abrasiveness

To ensure that there are no gaps between the lid and the body, take sandpaper, place it on a flat surface, and level the bottom plane of the lid on it.

After we glued the lid to the body with superglue, using the same sandpaper remove burrs and glue smudges from the side edges of the case.
Then we finally polish the body with polish.

Step 5. Completion

The case is ready

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Looks stylish!

But the creative possibilities for creating exclusive flash drives do not end there. On the contrary, there can be an infinite number of types of cases for them.
Look what other craftsmen have done.

Do you have an original flash drive? What ways do you know of customizing this mini-media?

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Which is made by hand. You can make it for a loved one.
I suggest knitting an original case for electronic media. In addition to pleasant impressions, a person will receive a useful thing to prevent damage to the flash drive when dropped or exposed to low temperatures.
To work you will need: a flash drive, a ruler, a hook and thread.

The proposed model uses “Iris” cotton threads, but if desired and possible, you can use any.
Before knitting, you should measure the length and width of the flash drive. Knit a chain of 25 chain stitches, one and a half times longer than the length of the flash drive itself.

Then, without turning the product, we continue to knit stitches in a circle, sticking the hook into the air loops of the chain.

In the last loop we knit 3 single crochets. We proceed to the second row without a lifting air loop. Now we knit single crochets all the time in a circle without adding 11-12 rows so that the flash drive placed inside is completely hidden inside.

This produces a small bag with a height of about 2.5 centimeters.

We do not tie the connecting row to the end by 2 cm - a distance equal to the width of the flash drive, so that it can freely enter and exit the case. We pass the thread through the last loop and tighten. We pull the thread inside out with a crochet hook, fasten it and cut off the end.

For reliability, I recommend attaching the flash drive to the case. This way you don’t have to worry about losing the case and can comfortably wear it on your hand or neck.
You need to tie a string. To make it stronger, you need to knit it in two threads. To do this, you should unwind, without tearing it from the ball, a thread four times longer than the required lace. Then knit a chain of air loops of the required length with a double-folded thread.

When the lace is ready, we thread it through a special hole on the flash drive.

Turn the cover inside out and thread the lace through the bottom of the cover using a hook.

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Buy flash drives wholesale from plastic, leather, metal, business card flash drives with or without printing, make flash drives according to custom design in Moscow in a short time YOU can by writing to us at goods@site or calling any number indicated in the site header!

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Gift sets for February 23 and March 8!

As promised, we have prepared new sets for men on February 23 and for women on March 8! Our sets consist of different components, each individual. Some sets include an external battery and a flash drive; a 3-in-1 set consists of: a diary, a metal pen and a leather flash drive. We have also expanded our range of eco-kits, namely, we purchased wooden power banks with a battery capacity of 2800 maH instead of the old 2200 maH, we also purchased wonderful eco-friendly wooden handles and brought new retractable wooden flash drives. Each set, designed with love and functionality, contains our main products - flash drives, for each set we chose a different amount of memory and ranged prices, trying to make some sets more budget-friendly, while others, containing more memory and more items, tried to make them affordable.

You can look at all new sets for February 23 and March 8 in the “Souvenirs and sets” section or in the “Flash drives for February 23” section. We will be glad to see each of you as our customer and promise to share new products as often as possible! Choose Your Set!

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One month left until Men's Day! Don't know what to give?

Gift for February 23rd to a colleague or to a loved one, it’s not so easy for a man to choose. I want the gift for Defender of the Fatherland Day to be brutal and at the same time memorable. In our opinion, a flash drive in the form of a cartridge, a token, or a bullet with a personalized engraving will be a memorable gift, and a useful one at that. Gifts for February 23 and March 8 for schoolchildren or kindergartens in the form of a flash drive of a tank, an airplane, a bomb and other original shapes will be useful and functional, will last a long time and will be necessary in the child’s school and creative activities. We also present to your attention a Promotion - personalized engraving on a white external battery with a capacity of 2200 mAh for only 350 rubles. Soon we will photograph our sets for corporate gifts for men on February 23, which will consist of the necessary items of office life.

Visit our website and choose gifts for February 23 at low prices by ordering through our website. For regions we offer a cash on delivery service, for Moscow - delivery within and beyond the Moscow Ring Road. You can also avoid spending money on delivery and pick up your order by pickup (we do not charge for pickup, as other companies do).

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VAT has increased, and we have reduced PRICES!

Dear customers and subscribers! New Year I've arrived, our weekend is over, our workdays have begun! You can make our life more interesting and enjoyable without spending big money. A small souvenir in the form of an original flash drive will brighten up gray everyday life and will useful thing at work and at home. On the eve of the holidays: February 23 and March 8, we began to update our assortment. In addition to traditional flash drives in the form of a cartridge, bullet, token, airplane, pistol, machine gun and many other cool flash drives, we prepare sets consisting of the necessary items that will be useful and will be used in work and Everyday life everyone. While our kits are being assembled and tested, we decided to please each of you and, despite the VAT increase, reduce prices for flash drives, this is especially noticeable in the flash drive category on February 23! We tried to purchase products in advance at old prices; not everything was successful, but our team decided that this should not become your concern. A gift can be pleasant, necessary and useful, and at the same time be inexpensive!

Hurry up to buy gifts for colleagues and loved ones, make the gift individual, engraving, embossing and UV printing will help you with this.

Our team will be glad to see and hear every client, every comment, review and word makes us better! The holidays are approaching: February 23 and March 8, buy souvenirs for colleagues and gifts for friends in advance, enjoy life and order from us =)

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Dear clients and subscribers of our website! HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019!

Before we congratulate you on the upcoming 2019, we would like to say THANK YOU! Thank you for choosing us, for recommending us and for making repeat purchases! We are developing, we have big plans for expansion in the new 2019! And we move forward only thanks to your advice, care and feedback! We sincerely congratulate you on the upcoming New Year! We wish you and your loved ones health, energy, joy and prosperity! May all your wishes and thoughts come true in 2019!

In the meantime, you are relaxing, we are preparing for February 23rd! New items and pleasant bonuses await you on February 23! We are waiting for you at any time of the year. Come shopping, choose flash drives and souvenirs on our website for February 23, March 8, or just for no reason. We will definitely give a discount to our regular customers! Happy New Year 2019!

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Flash drive recovery programs!

Many products are not durable and a flash drive is no exception. Our company Logistics Supply has been dealing with USB drives for more than 5 years in the USB product market and has also encountered a problem when a flash drive stops working overnight.. But, unfortunately, not a single product is immune from a sudden failure to work. If you are faced with a problem - when a flash drive does not respond to your request, and you still have important data on it, then perhaps our advice on choosing programs that allow you to restore a flash drive will help in your situation. And so, there are quite a lot of special utilities for recovering memory and information from a USB device.

We will look at the most popular programs that YOU can use: The first place among Internet users is occupied by the utility Hetman Partition Recovery. The tool effectively restores all files in their entirety, even if the flash drive has lost its file system, boot record, or has a virus that has encrypted the information. Also, the program is 95% likely to pull data from already formatted media. In 2nd place in the ranking, the popular program - JetFlash Recovery Tool, capable of quickly and efficiently restoring the functionality of not only Transcend USB flash drives, but also JetFlash, as well as A-DATA in the event of their failure. Extremely simple and intuitive operation using just two function keys “Start” and “Exit”. Third place in our ranking, occupied by F-Recovery SD- a program that is used to recover microSD. The utility recovers lost user data on SD cards. Quite often, such drives are used in mobile devices, as well as in a variety of digital cameras.

We wish you not to lose your data, use the purchased product, in this case flash drive for many years.

We have PROMOTIONS for you! Where can you find them?

Our company provides the opportunity to order our products with a discount on the BIGLION Internet resource. From September 25, 2018 to November 25, 2018, we launched 2 promotions together with biglion.ru. You can purchase a coupon for metal external batteries for only 385 rubles, and get a free engraving of 2 words on them. This is a unique opportunity to make a personalized gift for yourself or your loved one for a small amount. You can also purchase a power bank with a capacity of 4000 mah - a stylish thin metal external battery. The second promotion of a USB flash drive watch with a 30% discount gives you the opportunity to purchase a 2 in 1, USB drive and watch face with time. You can choose a bracelet of red, orange, yellow, blue or of blue color. Also available is a USB flash drive with a capacity of 4, 8, 16 or 32 GB. Product warranty is 1 year.

We have new equipment - we engrave our products and other souvenirs wholesale and retail!

Our production is expanding - we have mastered the UV machine and work on color images on plastic, leather and others soft materials, but do not forget that there are also hardware, which also need branding. In this regard, our company has found a new friend in the person of an engraving machine. Now we can engrave everything metal products, presented on our website, as well as any souvenir goods made of metal that you have. Engraving on flash drives, business card holders, thermoses and thermal mugs, engraving on lighters - we can engrave these souvenirs and more in a short time, from 1 piece. We provide engraving both wholesale and retail.

Many people, when purchasing a flash drive, ask the question why the memory does not match the display on the PC?

In this article you will get an answer to a frequently asked question: Why is the memory slightly less than the stated value? It's all about the arithmetic encoding. There is decimal arithmetic and binary arithmetic. So, according to decimal arithmetic, 1MB = 1000KB, 1 GB = 1000 MB, but operating system Our computers use binary arithmetic, 1 MB = 1024 KB, 1 GB = 1024 MB, so there is a clear difference between memory capacity and display in a computer. Below is the difference between memory and its display on PC:

4GB = range 3.5GB-3.8GB

8 GB = approximately 7.4 GB-7.85 GB

16 GB = range 14.2 GB-15.8 GB

32 GB = range 28 GB-30

GB 64 GB = approximately 58 GB-60 GB

As you can see, the larger the flash drive, the more memory you lose. If on a flash drive with a memory capacity of 4 GB you lose about 300 MB, then on a flash drive with a memory capacity of 64 GB you will be missing 6 GB. The capacity also depends a little on the file system that is used on the flash drive, it can be (FAT, NTFS), because the system also takes up a certain space on the flash drive. And finally, we advise you to buy USB flash drives with the amount of memory you need for your purposes.

Ready for the World Cup? What football-themed souvenirs would you buy?

The FIFA World Cup is a holiday not only for football fans and avid fans, but also for people who do not play sports and do not attend a football match of their favorite team every weekend. In any case, in our country, such a grandiose event is taking place for the first time and perhaps the last. This is a historical moment, so every person wants to join this sporting event. It seems to us that we should not remain on the sidelines; we need to actively participate in the life of 11 cities, from June 14 to July 15, plunging into the atmosphere of foreigners, sports and various promotions carried out by large organizations in honor of the Championship. You can stand out from the crowd and leave yourself a memorable souvenir of this event with the help of various gifts. What will be the symbol of the FIFA World Cup? Of course, the ball. And a flash drive ball with an individual color design of your team for which you support or the championship cup will remain on for a long time a thing that you will use often at work, at home, dumping memorable photos from the championship or work files, remembering the grandiose event of the year. Our company personalizes both your material and provides souvenirs with branding of any of your images or inscriptions. A flash drive-ball of any memory is an original souvenir that can be presented to a loved one or work colleague with a memorable image associated with the World Cup. Are you looking forward to the World Cup? Will you be buying memorable souvenirs?

Silicon Power has released a new storage device - 3 in 1!

Let's figure out what's new in the USB market? And so, one of the news from the world of flash drives was a flash drive with three ports, working on the following interfaces: USB Type-A (USB3.1 Gen 1), Micro-B (USB2.0), Type-C (USB3.1 Gen 1). This universal flash drive allows you to use USB with a regular computer, phone or any gadget with a USB Type-C connector. In addition, the flash drive is covered with a special material that reliably protects it from moisture or dust. Each connector has a cap made of durable rubber. This USB drive is small in size and has different memory sizes: 32 GB, 64 GB and 128 GB. Unfortunately, the creators of the 3-in-1 flash drive do not disclose the price.

Did you know what an otg or otg flash drive is?

Many users do not know about such a simple and at the same time functional device as an OTG flash drive. And it, in turn, has the function of not only an information storage device, but also an adapter. The otg flash drive can be connected directly to your phone, tablet or other device that has a USB connector. Now you can easily connect an external drive to your gadget and copy the necessary files, watch movies from a flash drive or photos, view documents without looking up from your smartphone or tablet. OTG flash drives are becoming increasingly popular and distinctive feature What happens is that in addition to the standard USB connector, there is also a micro connector!

Did you know that Intel has released a USB artificial intelligence accelerator?

Intel never ceases to amaze, the company recently revealed a new product! Now a compact flash drive-shaped device called Movidius Neural Compute Stick will help the artificial intelligence of any PC. This device is designed for faster computational flows associated with deep learning of neural networks, it will reduce the barrier to entry into the development, configuration and deployment of applications artificial intelligence.

This device costs from $79, the body of the compact device is made of aluminum. Some experts are afraid of such implementations and achievements in the topic of artificial intelligence, and this is understandable, because in our world information technologies, all kinds of programs and developed robots, it is difficult for us people to feel important and humane. Therefore, artificial intelligence is wonderful, but a flash drive that is beautiful and easy to use in rhinestones is much nicer.

Did you know that it is dangerous to charge your gadget throughusb-port?

Kaspersky Lab conducted an experiment and proved the danger of charging a phone through a computer's USB port. The company's experts found that both Android and iOS systems connected to a computer via a USB cable are vulnerable and automatically exchanging a set of data, allowing attackers to take advantage of photos, messages and other personal information.

So be careful when charging your phone or any other gadget using alternative options: external batteries, power bank.

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We suggest making a gift box with your own hands (click on picture 1 or 2, save to your computer, print, cut out and the box is ready)

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Differences between DVD-R and DVD+R?

The DVD-R format, developed by Pioneer, is supported by the DVD Forum. How did DVD+R come about? It's simple, since the DVD Forum group took quite large licensing fees for the right to use the DVD-R format they developed; in 2002, another company, Alliance, developed the DVD+R standard.

There is no compatibility between DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W), but both data formats are supported on all modern media. At all, fundamental differences no, the difference is only in recording information, not even in reading the disk, so for users there is no particular difference when choosing a disk with - or +.

So, the main differences between DVD-R and DVD+R formats:

1. DVD+R discs are a little more reliable due to their resistance to external damage

2. DVD+R discs have more high quality information and higher speed compared to the DVD-R format

3. Record interruptions can occur on both disc formats, but DVD+R is less likely to fail.

Thus, both formats work on all modern players; the DVD-R format loses to DVD+R mainly in speed and information recording.
In our company you can buy CD+R and DVD+R discs at retail and wholesale.

Not all old tablets support the function of connecting a flash drive or modem, but I will tell you how to outsmart them and connect a flash drive, modem, or even a hard drive to them.

Today I would like to present to your attention an OTG adapter.

First, I want to tell you what OTG is? This is a way to connect to your tablet or phone that supports the OTG function, printer, flash drive and even hard drive. This connection is also called USB-host.

You can also connect a keyboard or mouse to your gadget, if the gadget supports such a function.

And so, to create this miracle cable, we need:
Old USB extension cable
Micro USB connector (you can get it from a regular USB cable for your device)
Soldering iron and soldering accessories

And so, let's go, to make such a cable, we will need to connect the 4th pin to the 5th pin of the micro USB connector

We must get to the fourth pin and connect it with a jumper to the GND wire as shown in the picture

After we connect the 4th and 5th pins with a jumper, our gadget will perform the function of an active device and will understand that another passive device is about to be connected to it. Until we install a jumper, the gadget will continue to act as a passive device and will not see your flash drives.

But that’s not all; to connect a hard drive to a phone or tablet, this adapter will not be enough for us. To connect devices whose consumption is more than 100mA, namely 100mA can be supplied by the port of your device, we will need to connect additional power to our OTG cable, which should be enough for your hard drive to work.

Here is a diagram of such an adapter

Now it's time to start collecting
We take an old USB extension cable and cut it not too far from the 2.0 connector, since the current is only 100mA, to avoid large losses. Cut approximately in the same place as shown in the photo

Afterwards we clean our wire

I connected pins 4 and 5 with a drop of solder.

Well, here is our entire cable assembled

All that remains is to check the functionality, take the tablet, insert the “adapter” and insert the flash drive into it, everything works, as the flashing LED on the flash drive and the tablet detecting the flash drive tell us.