Post by thread:zipdrive and pic microcontroller..

ratacus spartucus wrote: > ... zip drive up to a pic some how... I'm guessing you have some kind of data logging app and you wish to read the data medium on a PC. Have you considered Toshiba Smart Media cards? Non-volatile, about the size of a stamp, and come in 2,4 or 8Mbytes (so far). Used in some digital cameras for instance. My local camera shop quoted about 10 UKP per Mbyte. Other PIC projects might consider this as an alternative to hooking up floppy drives etc to PICs. Dr Pei An in Electronics & Wireless World described how a PC could read them from a printer port, with the help of a few 8-bit latches/buffers.

Keith Howell wrote: > ratacus spartucus wrote: > > > ... zip drive up to a pic some how... > > I'm guessing you have some kind of data logging app > and you wish to read the data medium on a PC. > > Have you considered Toshiba Smart Media cards? > Non-volatile, about the size of a stamp, > and come in 2,4 or 8Mbytes (so far). > Used in some digital cameras for instance. > My local camera shop quoted about 10 UKP per Mbyte. > > Other PIC projects might consider this as an alternative > to hooking up floppy drives etc to PICs. Has anyone used an Iomega Clik drive? It looks ideal for a PIC logging application. (40MB, serial access) http://iomega.com I haven't been able to get an OEM price out of Iomega though... -- Friendly Regards Tjaart van der Walt spam_OUTtjaartTakeThisOuTwasp.co.za Add your voice !! Vote at the Great G Com Public Vote. Go to : http://www.wasp.co.za/~tjaart/gcomvote.html |--------------------------------------------------| | WASP International | |R&D Engineer : GSM peripheral services development| |--------------------------------------------------| |SMS .....0832123443KILLspam@spam@wasp.co.za (160 chars max)| | http://www.wasp.co.za/~tjaart/index.html | |Voice: +27-(0)11-622-8686 Fax: +27-(0)11-622-8973| | WGS-84 : 26¡10.52'S 28¡06.19'E | |--------------------------------------------------|