My Moleskine secrets

It’s been a while, since I had this in mind: to put a 2.5″ hard drive inside a Moleskine. I did imagine it, but to be honest, it was just the other day, when I stumbled upon a website, that I saw that someone just had the same idea, so I decided to finally do it myself!
I have a 40 GB 2.5″ IDE hard drive, that had no direct use, so I decided to use this for the project… I thought, if this thing burns, well, it’s a small disk, not to worry.
I picked up a Moleskine at a local store, for €9, the sketchbook ones, which are made with a thicker paper, and give more support to the all thing. Then I grabbed a really sharp object, a surgical scalpel, and got started.

First I drew with a pencil, the outline for the disk adapter, which I had at home, then I started cutting, one by one, the sheets of thick paper (they were 60 of them). When I reached the end, I had to make a few adjustments so the blue LED and the USB plug could fit OK, and started to glue each page to each other… unfortunately, my glue was really bad, so I decided to do this later, I just wanted to see the end!

Things went well, and now I have a really cool external hard drive. I even have the Moleskine icon when the disk is connected to my Mac, so I couldn’t be more happy! To finish the “spy” disk, I created a encrypted 40GB image in Apple’s Disk Utility, and put this inside my hard drive. Now I have a really safe place to store sensible information (which I know its not safe, since this can burn at any moment, but I make backups, don’t worry).

There you have it… (time+moleskine+hard drive+nothing better to do = moleskine external drive)
Hope you like it, give me your opinion!