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I was just wondering if there was a tutorial anywhere on how to make your own USB Flash Drive and I don't mean take apart a USB and put the guts into something else, I mean put together the flash memory and controller.

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asked Jan 17 at 12:00

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Your title should be "DIY USB Mass storage tutorial" because you are specifically asking for a tutorial on how make your own flash drive. A question about making your own USB gadgets has been asked a while ago. – bpijls Jan 17 at 14:11

Mitch Davis · Answer 1 · 2010-02-10 04:19:16Z UTC

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Dean Camera has written a USB stack for the AVR. It includes a mass storage driver.

http://www.fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php

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LUFA is very good. And the AVR USB chips are getting better and better. If you prefer to develop on Linux or OSX, LUFA on an AVR is a good choice. If you're Windows, then look at the PIC development environment. The low-end PIC USB chips have more features and are easier to use than the low-end AVR USB chips, but you really can only develop for them on Windows. – todbot♦ Feb 10 at 17:32

Leon Heller · Answer 2 · 2010-01-17 12:51:22Z UTC

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You could base it on this project of mine:

http://www.leonheller.com/usb

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bpijls · Answer 3 · 2010-01-17 14:08:54Z UTC

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A question about general USB devices was asked a while ago, but you are specifically referring to a USB mass storage device (MSD)

Jan Axelson (from http://www.lvr.com) has written a book about it: http://www.lvr.com/mass_storage.htm

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ajs410 · Answer 4 · 2010-04-28 22:15:35Z UTC

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You could also consider the Cypress FX2. It's a Hi-Speed USB chip that comes with Mass Storage Driver support. Dunno about any tutorials for it, but it's a pretty popular chip.

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Johan · Answer 5 · 2010-04-29 05:07:20Z UTC

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How about a good book on how usb works?

USB Complete - Jan Axelson

Then when you start to program, you know how things are supposed to work...

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jpc · Answer 6 · 2010-05-02 16:44:07Z UTC

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IMHO the easiest way is to use an AT90USB or LPC1343. The latter has mass-storage device firmware stored in ROM so you only need to supply some details for the device descriptor and 2 or 3 Flash access procedures.

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