In this project, students will be given a flash drive and asked to design a custom case for it. Each student's design should incorporate some mechanism or component to protect the flash drive. The more creative the better. The finished designs should be in such a shape so that the flash drive can still be inserted into usb ports. I included three different examples for this project. The first one makes use of a sliding mechanism to allow the user to extend and retract the flash drive. The second one is protected by a cover that splits down the middle and swings outwards to expose the flash drive. The third one uses a corkscrew design to allow the user to screw a cap onto the flash drive to protect it. Each student should be challenged to make use of a mechanism not used by anyone else in that class. It is also possible for students to work together to make a design that incorporates more than one flash drive.
| Ex1-cap.stl | 12.1KB | |
| Ex1-shell.stl | 98.4KB | |
| Ex1-slide.stl | 12.8KB | |
| Ex2-cover.stl | 132.5KB | |
| Ex2-holder.stl | 101.9KB | |
| Ex3-bottom.stl | 474.5KB | |
| Ex3-top.stl | 909.1KB |
