I saw some pictures of animal USB drives on the internet and thought it would be cool to make my own with a stuffed animal and a Sandisk Cruzer 256 mb drive I had laying around.  Here is the usb drive and cow (sorry, I forgot to take a picture of the cow before I cut the seams of the head off).

USB drive before

Chick-fil-A cow before

I had to cut the seams of the head as well as a couple seams in the back towards the tail.  The cuts in the back are so the lanyard would have a place to come out.  The next step is to take out some of the stuffing and fit the usb drive inside the body.  You might need to take some of the stuffing out to make space for the drive so it doesn’t push itself out.  The stuffing in this cow was particularly stiff (unlike cotton) so it had a lot of pressure at first.  Once you get the pressure right, you’ll need to thread the lanyard through the hole in the back that you carved.

The next step is to glue the usb drive in so it doesn’t pop out.  I used hot glue–at first I was afraid that it would damage the electronic components, but it seems to be fine.  Pull the USB drive out a little bit and add a generous layer of hot glue all around the drive.  Be sure not to put the glue too high because it will stop the cap from being able to attach.  Apply the glue then push the drive down into the body and put pressure around the neck so the outsides are affixed with the glue.  Do the same with the head.

Cow body

Head with glued cap

And here’s the finished product (notice the light from the USB lights up when plugged in):

Cow plugged in

Drive turned on