Thread: How would I interface a flash drive to the RC?
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Re: How would I interface a flash drive to the RC?
An offboard PIC or AVR with an attached dataflash module could easily do it, AVRs can be entirely self-contained so all you'd need is a serial connector, the AVR and the flash memory, I'm not sure if you can draw enough power right off the serial port, but you should be able to draw from a few PWMs to power it, it'd be a nice project, AVRs can be programmed in assembly, C, BASIC and a few other languages.
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