How would I interface a flash drive to the RC?

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by PhatMike

Not sure if this is still relevant, but our programming mentor showed up at one of our preseason meetings with a little SD card reader similar to the one linked above. I don't remember all the details, but I believe it needed 6 Digital I/Os on the controller and you could read text files off it (his idea was to use it to hold a few pages of stuff that constantly changes like auton programs) so you don't have to recompile and reload your code so much

Good luck with that. Even on the PC, string parsing is hard. On the PIC, I doubt you'll have the power or memory to handle it. What might be more reasonable would be to store autonomous in EEPROM and use a custom loader to change it. (Similar idea to Kevin's navigation code.)

Of course, you should feel free to prove me wrong.