Simplest way to write to USB stick or TF/SD card with PBP?

[CuriousOne]

Hello.
There are numerous of SD/TF/USB stick adapter boards for hobby purposes.
I have couple of UBS stick datalogger by parallax, which are super easy to use, but they're not made anymore and were very expensive during it's time.
There are some modules for TF card, USB flash drive, which seem to have support on Arduino and other platforms. like this one: https://hallroad.org/arduino-disk-re...-pakistan.html
So the question is, had anyone used these with PBP? which one is easiest to use in terms of resources and programming skills?
I need simple operation: Create text file with name of current time-date and write some logger data into it. That's all, no file reading, deleting, creating and so on.
So will be this doable with 16F series chips, or I'll definitely need PIC18 and so on?

[mark_s]

I didn't know these existed. I found this document which shows that it can be interfaced in 8bit parallel, SPI or UART. Which means you can probably use a pic16 for a simple data logger. A may order a couple to see how they work.

https://www.mpja.com/download/ch376ds1.pdf

[CuriousOne]

Well there are several solutions capable of doing this. FTDI has this: https://www.ftdichip.com/old2020/Products/ICs/VNC2.htm
I've bought ones made by Parallax back in 2011, and they were around $45 ea now prices are about 8 times lower...

[rsocor01]

I had a PBP project to write to a SD card and it worked. That was many years ago and I don't remember the details of it, but it works. Attached is the sample code that I downloaded from the internet. Just change the file extension to PBP or copy paste the code into your program.


sdfs3.zipsdfs3.zip

[HenrikOlsson]

For data logging type applications I've had great success with the OpenLOG. Just send it ASCII data over a UART line and it will write it to a .txt file on an microSD card.

[CuriousOne]

Thanks!
Any sample PBP code?
for OpenLOG ?