At 02:17 PM 4/29/00 -0600, you wrote:
>320x240x8 bits =76.8KB. About 18 images on a floppy. Is that enough for
>your application?

mmmm. not very very enough, but....
>
>Why not use one of the new 'flash' memory cards used for the
>digital camera? 2,4,8 16 MB readily available and non-volatile.
>Readers for PC's are readily available.

yeah, I though about that but I think that it is expensive,
readers for that card with a PC???? WHERE!!!!!, This card that you are
talking about are the same that the card of the olympus digital camera??,
have you any idea where can I found a PC reader for that?.
what about a socket, It seems to be very delicated.

>You'll spend a LOT less time getting that to
>work than building a FD controller, and debugging the logic.

you right.

>A FD is a DUMB device. YOU have to step tracks, format the data,
>etc. If you add an external FD control chip, the task becomes easier,
>but you still have to do a fair bit to get the data into the FDC
>at the rates it requires. And you still have to worry about
>formatting the data into a form the OS will read (directories, FATs,
>etc.)

Well, thinking clearly, and for what you tell me up here, will be better
to use some kind of memory jeje :).


>And don't use BMP fomat. It's horridly inefficient. You can probably
>do some basic RLL encoding or other compression with the PIC before
>storing the data.
>
graphic encoding on a 8 bit PIC????, Isn't it complicated?, I don't want to
spend months programming graphic encoding routines, again do you know
where can I found info for that?, I don't think that can i do it with a
small pic but may be with a 17CXXX. and a external NPU :-).

Thanks A loT!.
see you.
   Leandro J. Laporta (LU2AOQ)     mail: lu2aoq@yahoo.com
 wrk: Arg. Assoc. for Space Tech.   ham: TCP/IP high speed group HSG


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