Had an idea that slowly morphed in to a pretty cool concept after some extensive discussion with Will Kelly…
A plexigalss cube of USB devices, basically start with a small clear cube (corner balanced) that you can connect USB devices that is just a giant JBOD. People can send in their physical devices, the installation is read only. You plug the device in and it has a little blue read light that blinks when it is accessed or a scaled light from Green to Red depending on how much content on the drive is down voted or flagged as not fitting the acceptance agreement (nothing illegal etc). As more USB drives come in, another layer is added to the cube and another micro server to handle all the additional devices. The submission would be open for a certain period of time, or to a max limit of devices, then the cube is sealed and becomes a snap shot of files in time and is an interactive art installation since it would pulse and blink randomly as the files were accessed etc. There would be a website front end that randomly displays content from the drives on the main page, and it would all be searchable.
Thoughts?
Sounds interesting..I can’t picture it based on your description… (also what is JBOD?).
I think it could be awesome, I definitely have an old thumb drive I’d send in with something on it.