ProtoDojo’s Nintendo Controller Secure USB Drive

Jovens Protodojo Nintendo USB Drive

Joven's Protodojo Nintendo USB Drive under construction

My pal Joven, over at ProtoDojo has been at it again, this time creating a secure Nintendo USB drive. Now THAT is a USB drive.

He writes about his motivation, “When cleaning out the garage a few weeks ago, I found my original Nintendo Entertainment System. Rather than sell it on ebay, I decided to do a few projects using this iconic video game system.

At first, I simply wanted to turn the controller into a flash drive and be one of the thousands of videos and blogs of people turning everyday objects into external memory, but ever since I got my first arduino working, I’ve been itching to do something different. I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to add a security feature that required someone to enter the classic contra “30 lives” code before they could access the data?”

Check it out here:

http://www.protodojo.com/content/2009/10/retro-gamerdrive/

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