The website seems to make you think CF is better...
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The nice thing about CF is that it's pretty damn cheap (you can get a 512M card from CostCo.com for $50). Cheaper & faster than multimedia cards (MMC) and can be accessed via a PCMCIA slot, as all PC laptops have, using a $5 adaptor (although you can read/write using the Java program MintyComm program talking through the serial port)
One nice side-effect of using CF cards is that they 'talk' ATA so it's easy (design-wise) to swap it with a full IDE drive in case you ever need to access a large amount of data (a car mp3 player?)
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-Rob
larry price wrote:
Count me in. Are we stuck with CF though? I d kind of like to see if I could do an SD/MMC version.
But i think on the first pass I'll go with the predefined version
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:54:42 -0800, Mike Cherba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jamie, I have a decent iron, etc. Nothing very good for surface mount, but it does through hole components ptetty well. I don't have the connector for the mini-coax. I'm not even sure where to find one right now. They are kind of a niche item because they only get used for this. We might be able to get one through Digi-key. If we want to do the hardware thing, I'll bring my soldering tools, (iron, stand, solder, wick, sucker) But I need to get ahold of a small bottle of flux.
I've been thinking about building one of these Altoids tin MP3 players that we have all seen online. It might be kind of fun if a few of us all built them. We could buy components in a batch and assemble them at a meeting. That would also mean we could get real circuit boards spun for us rather than using bread boards. Here's the link to the design page. http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/index.html Any takers?
On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 08:43, Linux Rocks! wrote:
Oh, mike you didnt miss anything... we pretty much looked at a few old broken peices of hardware and sighed that there want much we could do with it.
Do you have one of those tiny connectors used on the little wifi modules? I need to de-solder a cable, and put one of those connectors on it. If we want to plan on having a fun with computer electonics party, I have tons of old computer hardware that is of little value... we could tear it apart, and build crazy stuff with it.
I dont know if I still have my soldering iron though... and even if I do find it, its pretty crusty and may not work!
On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:28 pm, Mike Cherba wrote: : All, : Just checked email one last time before bed. Bummed I couldn't play in : the hardware contest, but I kinda figure my stuff is cheating since it : is my actual job so I get more time to spend on it. I do have a really : cool demo to show though so I'll have to bring it next week. Wish I : could have made the meeting tonight, but we have a friend up visiting : from California. Someone has to tell me about any cool HW stuf that was : there tonight. Larry, I hope you took pictures! :0) : -Mike : : On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 21:36, larry price wrote: : > It's at my place, but it's almost over. : > : > On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:25:33 +0000, Jeff Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > > Jim, : > > : > > that was me! Hehehe...... I'm currently working this evening on some : > > client material. I'm not going to be able to make the meeting this : > > week, due to the work schedule being picked up this week - don't you : > > just like it when sunny weather, grabs you by the neck! Yike.... : > > : > > However, I may have some leeway time coming next week, depending on : > > where the meeting will be, Larry's, Jamie's, what???? : > > : > > Jeff : > > : > > Jim K wrote: : > > > whoever has the mandrake 9.1 laptop that needs help, I will bring : > > > the CD's to fix it tonight. : > > > JimK : > > : > > _______________________________________________ : > > EUGLUG mailing list : > > euglug@euglug.org : > > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
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