Comments on: The Moledrive – a Moleskine usb hard drive enclosure

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Notizbuchblog.de » Blog Archive » USB Festplatte im Notizbuch — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:22:13 +0000

[…] Artikel Moleskine usb hard drive enclosure beschreibt er, wie das Moleskine Festplattengehäuse gebastelt wird. Auf die Idee kam er, als sein […]

By: Andrew Durdin

Andrew Durdin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:30:00 +0000

Very nice-looking result. If it does start to get too hot, just open the cover for instant air-cooling :)

By: Ryan Roberts

Ryan Roberts — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:33:25 +0000

Yeah after thinking of doing this originally I ran a search online only to find it had been done previously, there are at least two other projects like this :)

Not sure about the USB drive, I’ll have a think and message you on twitter.

By: Japh

Japh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:31:03 +0000

Oh also, while I was looking for this post, I found another VERY similar from 2007: http://www.zonageek.com/2007/4/23/the-geekster-moleskine

Interesting similarities and differences in approach :)

By: Japh

Japh — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:28:42 +0000

I love this! First thing I thought was “what about heat though?!” too… I guess we’ll find out if it really is the big issue we all think it is!

I have a super tiny USB drive that I’ve been trying to think of something similar (only MUCH smaller) to do with it… any ideas?

By: JohnONolan

JohnONolan — Sun, 10 May 2009 15:41:41 +0000

SO cool, really really like that - though I have to admit that overheating was the first thing that came to my mind too. Will be interested to hear how it performs over time :)

By: Ryan Roberts

Ryan Roberts — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:19:15 +0000

I don’t think heat should be an issue, the drive isn’t used for much more than transferring data and heats up to about 40°C at most but it could possibly go higher… I’ll be keeping an eye on it.

I just cut the pages with a scalpel blade, but something a bit larger like a stanley knife blade may be better. It took a lot longer than expected with the scalpel, about 2 hours.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 10 May 2009 14:11:32 +0000

That’s REALLY nice Ryan. I am wondering if there are issues with heat though? Could it possibly catch fire eventually or am I being paranoid?

Also, what did you cut out the pages with? Just a sharp knife or something more high tech?

By: Ryan Roberts

Ryan Roberts — Sun, 10 May 2009 13:18:48 +0000

Haha nice.

Is that your site then? I noticed the dice on your notebook the last time we met.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:57:27 +0000

Nice work - prepare for moleskine protection league onslaught though - I got my fair share of hate mail from them after this post made it onto the boingboing front page http://www.inventoids.com/2007/moleskine-indexing-hack-tool/