USB key

Posted by Steve
And here's another one that didn't work out. I had this nifty little USB key, which got broken when I bumped into my laptop while walking past. I figured it might just be a broken trace, so opened it up and frankensteined the circuit board onto a connector I'd harvested from another faulty device.



The idea was sound (I thought), but I couldn't get it to work. The data and power lines were the right way round, there was continuity all the way to the board, no short circuits, but it wouldn't fire up. Dunno if that means I screwed up somewhere, or if the board got damaged too.