Comments on: Parts: microSD memory card holders

By: Chas

Chas — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 02:40:57 +0000

End of Life: Scheduled for obsolescence and will be discontinued by the supplier.

By: Giz

Giz — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:33:48 +0000

http://netload.in/datei7GPBPr7M8w/SCHA2B300.lbr.htm

By: steven heintz

steven heintz — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 23:56:34 +0000

Beastmaster’s site is down

does anyone have a link to the alps-microsd.lbr file mentioned above?

Thanks

By: RIchard

RIchard — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:04:04 +0000

I forgot my password, so i tried to format it, but it was still asking for the password

By: Karthik

Karthik — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:21:40 +0000

I really do not like microSD. They are expensive and come in lower capacity. I recently replaced the RS-MMC in n770 with SD card (after hacking the cover).

By: jamy

jamy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:47:10 +0000

jproach, i fully agree , an arduino is just a nice name for “ATmega-on-a-board-with-a-crystal-and-other-stuff-you-do-not-need”

By: jacques

jacques — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:45:24 +0000

jproach, i fully agree , an arduino is just a nice name for ATmega on board with a

By: WestfW

WestfW — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:08:47 +0000

Intermediate between large SD cards and annoying-to-deal-with micro-SD is “mini-SD.” I picked up some cheap mini-SD cards from an eBay dealer, and found them pretty easy to deal with (see the web site.) MicroSD is a convenient card format, as you can get adapters up to either mini-sd or full-sized-SD cards. (as a card format, miniSD suffers from not being popular enough…)

By: Dan Fekete

Dan Fekete — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:02:55 +0000

Thanks for the info… This is a great series, keep ‘em coming!

By: jproach

jproach — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:08 +0000

wwhat: you realize that you can just buy an atmega168 (or similar), 232 to TTL adapter, crystal, and that’s basically an “arduino”?

I’d throw in a breadboard as well.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:01:42 +0000

This is a stretch, but if you buddy up to your local GPS or cell phone retailer, you might be able to get a hold of some dummy models of old GPS or phones.

These dummy models often contain actual usb connectors, switches, and yes, even sd card connectors, all of which can be de-soldered and used in your projects.

I work at a radio shack and have scavenged some interesting stuff out of dummy models, sometimes even entire failed circuit boards loaded with SMD parts!

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:11:56 +0000

@brad and all
All those arduino projects, and so hard to get the arduino, they have a ‘local’ reseller here but the shipping is like 40 bucks, which is substantially more than the product and seems insane frankly.
Reason I tell you this: Count your blessings :)

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:04:47 +0000

primer for those interested in writing to SD cards:

http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1206874649/8

By: Ian Lesnet

Ian Lesnet — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:18:46 +0000

@beastmaster – thanks. I sent you an e-mail.

By: beastmaster

beastmaster — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:01:05 +0000

coincidently, i already had this part created. i was looking into options when making the webserver pcb.

http://beastmasterelectronics.com/eagle/lib/alps-microsd.lbr