On 12/28/07, Herbert Graf <mailinglist4@farcite.net> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 12:06 -0800, Rob Susmilch wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > First some background. I'm going to be building a simple stand alone data
> > logger for personal use (and the fun of creating it of course) since most stand
> > alone loggers are hundreds of dollars. I will most likely be using a pic18f4553
> > IIRC, and either interfacing to a ADC chip or using the on-board A/D. I also am
> > going to be interfacing to SD card since from what I've read they are easy to
> > do.
> >
> > My question is, and I've searched high and low, how to implement compression on
> > this little bugger. Granted I suppose getting a jumbo SD card could negate any
> > compression done, but I may perhaps go to a simple serial EEPROM instead. All
>
> Frankly, once you get the init done, an SD card in SPI mode is not
> really much more complicated to use then a serial EEPROM.

If you don't implement the FAT. Else...

I would forget
> about going the compression route and just use an SD card, they are so
> cheap these days.

I'm totally agree with this.
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