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skimask
- 20th April 2008, 08:27
Found this about an hour ago. Tried it... Works like a champ. Take an old 'female' floppy drive connector, plug an SD card into it. Pins line up almost perfectly.
And who doesn't have a few floppy drive cables laying around....
Could it be any simpler than this?

http://uanr.com/sdfloppy/

Ioannis
- 21st April 2008, 00:03
That is the greatest hack I 've seen lately! Thanks for sharing.

Ioannis

skimask
- 21st April 2008, 00:05
That is the greatest hack I 've seen lately! Thanks for sharing.
I'm almost sorry I found it... Very little sleep since last night!

mister_e
- 21st April 2008, 00:40
Nice way to reuse ol' dusty stuff indeed. Nice finding.

Art
- 22nd April 2008, 13:38
Hey mister_e, do you have any sample routines to share that make use of SD cards?
It would open up new worlds to be able to move from I2C EEPROMS to 1Gb SD cards!

Luciano
- 22nd April 2008, 14:17
Hi,

Also possible:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4195/sdconqh8.jpg

Best regards,

Luciano

mister_e
- 22nd April 2008, 20:33
Hey mister_e, do you have any sample routines
http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/YES


to share
http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/N_http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/O_

mister_e
- 22nd April 2008, 21:00
Hi,

Also possible:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4195/sdconqh8.jpg

Best regards,

Luciano

True, I'm kind addicted to MikroE solution for development thingy...
http://www.mikroe.com/en/tools/mmc/images/mmc_400.jpg
http://www.mikroe.com/en/tools/mmc/images/mmc_connected.jpg

~18USD everything you need
http://www.mikroe.com/en/tools/mmc/

Ioannis
- 23rd April 2008, 08:18
http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/YES


http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/N_http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/O_

Oooh, you bad boy!

Art
- 23rd April 2008, 11:37
http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/YES
http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/YES
http://www.mister-e.org//Pics/YES

Use the email link to contact the author of this page:
http://www.turtlesarehere.com/html/data_logger.html
and he will share his AVR routines which can be easily ported to Microchip assembler.
I didn't really require BASIC code. Assembler source is actually quite abundant.

The routines I have access the SD card as a mass RAM with no FAT system,
which is the same way we use I2C EEPROMS.
Art.

Luciano
- 23rd April 2008, 12:56
Hi,

Is something similar already available somewhere?

An SD card socket has a switch to detect if the SD card is inserted.
This switch is useless to detect if the user removes the SD card
from the socket while data is written to it. With the solution
below, it is possible close the file as soon as the user opens the door.
(The file can be closed before the card is removed from the socket).

I am searching something like that:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2981/sddoorrz4.jpg

Best regards,

Luciano

skimask
- 23rd April 2008, 15:19
Also possible:
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4195/sdconqh8.jpg
Best regards,
Luciano
Even better! Nice find...

mister_e
- 23rd April 2008, 15:38
Hi,

Is something similar already available somewhere?

An SD card socket has a switch to detect if the SD card is inserted.
This switch is useless to detect if the user removes the SD card
from the socket while data is written to it. With the solution
below, it is possible close the file as soon as the user opens the door.
(The file can be closed before the card is removed from the socket).

I am searching something like that:

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2981/sddoorrz4.jpg

Best regards,

Luciano
Kind of SD card reader Bay or sort of... well, never saw one myself yet :(