Here's yet another tech repurposing/recycling post!
This USB SD card reader was DIY'd from a component I found in a trashed laptop someone had discarded and left on the side of a bin!
The laptop's SD reader daughterboard was really just an USB device connected to one of the motherboard's internal USB ports via a ribbon cable. So, after figuring out which pin is which, desoldering that ribbon cable and replacing it with a regular USB one, as one would expect, effectively turned it into an external SD card reader
At that point all I had to do was to find a case for it: I don't have a 3D printer, but trimming the board slightly and removing the plastic stands made it fit perfectly into this SD card holder, which does the job and is rather small all things considered!
(And yes, the irony of using an SD card holder as its case isn't lost on me!
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