April maker challenge 10- Self-destructing USB drive
So, since DHS can swipe your stuff at a security checkpoint for no good reason, I've been thinking I might like to make a self-destructing USB drive. There are two possible tacks for this: one, a "snappable" drive where there's a small ampule that one would crush (a la cold war suicide pills) that connects an on-board 3V lithium battery backwards across a couple of pins, roasting some silicon and making the drive pretty much irrecoverable. I guess in the end, it would be difficult to completely wipe out the entire flash matrix, but it's a start. This has a disadvantage in that you need to KNOW someone is ABOUT to take your flash drive away in order to activate it. The other method is a simple wire and switch method, where the drive is modified to reverse the 5V and ground unless the user does something to reverse that. The easy way is to put a switch on the drive which has to be flipped; that of course draws attention to the mechanism. A subtler method involve...