Teensy a la flash drive

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I would like to use a Teensy (possibly a 3.1) for portable testing when I'm not at my bench with gear in hand. I'd like to have an arduino with a good amount of sram (similar to my megas) for debugging with serial strings. Something I can plug in and do run tests with while I'm on the road.

Ideally I'd like a very small unit in a package just like a flash drive, that I could plug directly into my computer to use as a test bed. I see all the small arduinos have a usb mini or micro on them. Is it possible to shoehorn a USB A full size on there somehow? I don't need any of the pin headers, nothing will be connecting to it during testing. I just need to see that my sketches are compiling and processing properly. (some are quite complex) So I'd love to be able to plug something in directly to my computer like a flash drive, not have to mess around with cables and arduinos flopping around. Sometimes when I'm on the road with my laptop I've already got my hands full holding onto my laptop, last thing in the world I need is a cable geting ripped out wrong or a board grounding itself out on a table leg or something.
 
It's possible to get a USB A male to USB micro male adapter that is about the same size as a Teensy 3. The place I got mine got the order wrong multiple times and tried to get me to eat part of the cost of their mistakes otherwise, I'd recommend them. :)

A quick search for "usb 2.0 male to usb micro adapter" turned up this: http://www.miniinthebox.com/usb-mal...rds_shopping&gclid=CMzPrMO_gb0CFe5aMgodnAEAhg

(I have no idea about this company. This is just to illustrate the idea.)

Adapter + small project box would give you something a little larger than a typical flash drive but still pretty small.

If you wanted to make an adapter, I tore apart one of these adapters... The construction is pretty simple. There's an outer sleeve and two connectors wired together. The wires are reinforced with silicon adhesive.
 
I was thinking of maybe just outright removing the micro, insulating and epoxying an A onto it, and then run some reeeeealy little jumpers from the A to the board
but if there's going to be compatibility problems with the 1.5 ide, I will hold off
 
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