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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ambrus" data-source="post: 4489551" data-attributes="member: 17691">Lego™ AT-AT USB HubIn case there was any doubt left anywhere that I'm a complete geek...<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />In need of a USB hub for my new laptop, I drew inspiration from an <a href="http://www.geekstuff4u.com/product_info.php?products_id=880" target="_blank">R2-D2 4 plug USB</a> hub that I saw advertised online. It occurred to me that I could use a Lego™ AT-AT I bought a few years ago to create my own hub. So I went out, bought a Dynex® USB 2.0 7 Port Hub, dismantled it, and set about the task of marrying its electronic components to the AT-AT.Three of the ports are concealed inside the chassis and are permanently occupied by my peripheral devices' cables. Two of the cables (those for my GPS and PDA) remain coiled inside their own storage compartment concealed behind a hatch in the AT-AT's side. The other four ports are accessible below the hatch. The docking cradle for my iPod Shuffle is tucked inside the AT-AT's head/cockpit. All other leftover space within the chassis is used to house excess connecting cables. And here it is:<a href="http://img206.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05217ga9.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/1866/dsc05217ga9.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img206.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://img242.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05213vy6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/4140/dsc05213vy6.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img242.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05216ez6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/5602/dsc05216ez6.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img90.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://img90.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc05214sa5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/6264/dsc05214sa5.th.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img90.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>I'm inordinately pleased with this spiffy toy and am happy that I now have a (semi)practical reason to display my AT-AT on my desktop.</blockquote>

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