Connecting SD Card to RoMeo Controller

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I am trying to connect a [product]RB-Dfr-59[/product] (SD Card Breadboard Adapter) to a [product]RB-Dfr-36[/product] (Romeo All In One Controller) and having a little bit of a time figuring where is the best way to go about it. I believe the Romeo doesn’t have a direct SPI interface, but would it be possible to use just digital IO pins to do this or is that going to be a bigger headache then its worth?

I did find a tutorial on networking two Arduino’s via I2C and I have a mega 2560 which I could add, but haven’t really thought out how that will affect power consumption etc in the end.

Here is the work in progress. Everything is attached except the InfrRed bumpers. Running test code on everything works well (haven’t tested a couple analog sensors yet). We want the SD card so that it can log its data of where it goes/what it sees and then we can download the data.

http://www.carpentersystems.com/robot/DSC_0012_TINY.jpg

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First of all, thanks for sharing your robot csystems. It looks awesome.

As for connecting an SD car reader, you will need to interface it with pins 10 to 13 of your Arduino module, which are the ones dedicated to the SPI protocol. The pins on the SDcard adapter do not match they Arduino pins directly so you will need F-F jumper wires to connect the pins.