Quote Originally Posted by divisionbyzorro View Post
Hello all!

I'm an uber newbie here, so bear with me. For my senior design project at Texas A&M University, we're trying to build a circuit that will receive messages from a CAN network and write those messages to some sort of external device which can be interfaced with a PC. We're currently trying to write to an SD card, but we're having pretty much zero luck with it so far.

So I'm looking for any help I can with writing a program that will write files to an SD card in a FAT16 or FAT32 file system so that I can simply plug it into my SD card reader and get the information to my PC. I'd also like any information on how to build the circuit to do this; can I simply connect my PIC outputs to the SD card leads and use SPI to talk to the card? Or will I need some sort of external device to aid in this interface?

Thanks,
Sam
Oh boy....another 'SENIOR PROJECT'....

For starters...what other projects have you built...that have worked? Give me an idea of what you know or rather...what you don't know...'cause I can think of 3 different ways to handle this...1 not so easy, and the other 2 relatively hard...

Interfacing with CAN is NOT a newb project...nor is interfacing with an SD card. Flashing an LED is a newb project...