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/