Comments on: Make A Mixa – Cassette Shaped USB Drive

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:19:15 +0000

Does the USB connector fold away somehow? If not, this thing isn’t going to fit on my shelf with my other tapes, and it’s only a matter of time before it gets broken.
Decent enough fun idea (kind of), but badly executed methinks (and oh so very expensive for what it is!)

By: Your Obedient Serpent

Your Obedient Serpent — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:37:47 +0000

Stephanie:

I certainly don’t, but have a stereo system and a couple of boom boxes that have a tape deck, but no convenient input jacks. They’re not all THAT old.

By: KillBulletBill

KillBulletBill — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:13:08 +0000

Agreed, YOS.
In addition, I was hoping for at least 4 gigs of storage considering the size of a cassette tape. I mean, if we’re going retro and keeping size in mind, how about a PEZ dispenser. I’m already eye-balling the Lego version…

By: stephanie

stephanie — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:00:21 +0000

i believe i am going to try to to mod my own cassette tape with a USB drive… i don’t need any fancy label for it. and YOS…. who plays tapes anymore?

By: Your Obedient Serpent

Your Obedient Serpent — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:55:51 +0000

So, is this just a large, unwieldy housing for a thumb drive, or can you actually plug it into a cassette player and listen to the contents? The latter would be really useful.

Alas, the web site doesn’t say.