On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Harrison wrote: > > The more I think about it, the more I think it'll just be best if I get some > kind of development board that has a mmc flash + LCD + keyboard controller > integrated with the microprocessor. This will save me the time of soldering > everything together and hopefully the datasheet will be thorough enough that > the programming will be relatively straight forward... Here's how I would go about doing it, to get a working prototype going: - get a laptop, install Linux on it - locate a USB MMC reader that is supported in Linux - write a C library to interface with the MMC device - write the UI in Python and call the C lib to read/write to the device. You then have a working prototype with valid information on the flash memory. Could be done in under a week. You could then move on to a micro based platform. Alex PS. If I was starting fresh I would look in to the Arduino (AVR) boards, there are tons of tutorials out there. ie http://hubbard.engr.scu.edu/avr/avrlib/ -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist