{"id":574,"date":"2012-11-18T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T18:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2012-11-18T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T18:48:17","slug":"sd-card-disk-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/2012\/11\/sd-card-disk-box\/","title":{"rendered":"SD Card &#8220;disk box&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its getting colder outside and its time for cool retro projects!<\/p>\n<p>Today I had a really fine idea on how to better store all the SD cards I have lying around here on my desk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>With lots of retro projects using SD card as primary storage media I have lots of them here on my desk (e.g. for sd2iec, Chameleon 64, some Raspberry Pis, Arduinos &#8230;). All are usually shipped with their crystal plastic cases that also take up space&#8230;In daily use most of them are piled on the desk and the cases fly around somewhere else. So I really needed something to clean up this mess a bit.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I copied some 5.25 inch diskettes for my real C64 machine and while storing the floppy disks back in the floppy disk box, I had an idea&#8230; why no build a disk box for SD cards? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After some hours of paper work the job was done:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"575\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/2012\/11\/sd-card-disk-box\/sdiskbox\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?fit=640%2C489&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,489\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 650D&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1353262514&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;39&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;800&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sdiskbox\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;SD Card Disk Box&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?fit=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?fit=584%2C446&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-575\" title=\"sdiskbox\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?resize=584%2C446\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?resize=300%2C229&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?resize=150%2C114&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/sdiskbox.jpg?resize=400%2C305&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you want to build your own SD card disk box: Here are some hints:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Basic housing was the packaging of a SAM 256 uController from Olimex<\/li>\n<li>I cut away the top cover and used the spare cardboard to model the separator in the middle<\/li>\n<li>Finally I completely covered the box with<strong><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dict.leo.org\/ende?lp=ende&amp;p=_xpAA&amp;search=self-adhesive&amp;trestr=0x8004\"><strong><\/strong><\/a> self-adhesive plastic foil (Here in germany its called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.d-c-fix.com\/\">d c fix<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The foldaway dividers were cut out from SD card packaging (its a mixture of cardboard and plastic foil and its really durable) and stuck into a ground plate so you can move them a bit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now, its on to you! Prepare your scissors and start the paper hacking today \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>BTW: Another retro paperware project fits very well with this project: There is a thread on Forum64 that describes how to build <strong>scale replicas of 5.25 disk sleeves for your SD cards<\/strong>. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forum64.de\/wbb3\/board2-c64-alles-rund-um-den-brotkasten\/board107-sonstiges\/board44-bastelecke\/46042-commodore-diskettenh-lle-f-r-sd-karten\/\">this thread<\/a> for details and also downloadable PDFs with the sheets of construction paper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its getting colder outside and its time for cool retro projects! Today I had a really fine idea on how to better store all the SD cards I have lying around here on my desk&#8230; With lots of retro projects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/2012\/11\/sd-card-disk-box\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commodore-64","category-hardware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBMF-9g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lallafa.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}