How much data are you wanting to store??? Useing some 1M bit I2C memories would be a lot easier. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Harford" To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:31 PM Subject: Re: [OT] EE for CsE > That project looks doable with patience. SD cards can be a bit tricky > though. > Looks like there are code samples out there that talk about > interfacing to an MMC: > http://www.microchipc.com/sourcecode/ > > Here's how I would do it: > > - get a pic programmer and a devel board that has some peripherals on > it... LCD etc. > - write the code to output 'Hello, world' on the LCD > - write the code to take output from a serial port and echo it on to the > LCD > - hook up the GPS and get the coords displayed on the LCD > - hook up the SD card and test writing to it... are there low level > routines available for SD card reading on the PC or do they expect to > have a filesystem on there? Not sure about that one. > - get them working together > > The above stuff would probably take me about 6 months to do in my > spare time... :D > > Once you have the code working on the devel board, then look into > building the circuit and dealing with all the finicky analog stuff. > > On 5/10/07, Joshua Shriver wrote: >> Well I have two relatively small *hope so at least* projects in mind. >> I bought a decent GPS locator that connects to a serial port. Though >> I dont have a laptop or portable computer to use it with. Thought if I >> could use a PIC chip to read off of the serial i/o line, provide power >> to the power pin, the PIC could parse the data, then have some kind of >> storage device attached (SD?) for storing the data. > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist