My friend at www.zerosign.net made this, and it is a fun project. Who doesn’t love the simpsons? This would be nice if you had a large storage device, maybe a gig or so. You could store some mp3s on your homer drive. It appears that he designed his red LED to stay on all the time, but he could have also made it come on when he was accessing data. If he would have used the two usb pins in the middle, they are only active when data is being written to the device. He could have connected them through a transistor, much like in my rumble mouse product. But, he would have probably wanted a NPN transistor, rather than a PNP, because the NPN acts like a switch when the base voltage is high. I won’t rehash all of that, you can read about it in my rumble mouse section at http://www.diylive.net/?p=9. I actually mentioned to him that if he found a homer talking device, you could connect it so that when the drive is accessed, homer would speak. It would be tricky to get it to speak just once, and at the beginning of the access, but I am sure it could be done, without too much trouble. Here is the description he gave at dig(“MMmmmmm…data” Cool write up on the making of the first Homer Simpson USB storage device. 128MB of sweet, geeky goodness.)
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