ThrUSB

A USB flash drive that doesn't consume a USB port.

Project Brief

A team of other developers and I jointly pitched ThrUSB at a Startup Weekend on the Sunshine Coast, which featured solid-state storage, with USB pass-through for using & charging devices. Such a device was created as a solution to the decreasing number of USB ports available on portable computers, providing extra storage, while still allowing the user to use or charge another device in the pass-through USB port.

We researched, created, and refined the hardware, and launched the product on a crowdfunding website. Unfortunately, it did not hit its funding target, and with this and shifting technologies in mind, we decided to pack the venture down.

Watch the pitch video here

Gallery

Front – USB Host IC visible.

Rear – 64GB Samsung memory visible.

Hacked-together rough prototype

First USB 2.0 functioning prototype

Information

CLIENT	ThrUSB Pty. Ltd.
YEAR	2015 - 2017
STORAGE	16GB \| 32GB \| 64GB \| 128GB
INTERFACE	USB 3.1 Gen 2 at 10GBPS