Has any 1 had success in sending data to a laptop hard drive from a basic stam? I am considering this for my hex and need some advice. The hard drive will be located on the bot not in the laptop. I was thinking on running the hard drive straight from the stamp and proper supporting hardware. Please let me know if you think this is possiable.
What kind of interface are you considering for the drive? I would think that Sata would be the easiest just because theres less actual pins and stuff to program for. But then again, im not a software guy.
Once you download a program to the basic stamp, you can’t send that program back to the hard drive. You can, however, send data generated by the stamp program to your computer via the serial cable but it reqires a simple comunications circuit.
You can read information on how to use visual basic to comunicate with the stamp here: parallax.com/dl/docs/cols/nv … l/nv89.pdf
Or this link that explains serial communication also:
parallax.com/dl/docs/books/sw/exp/sw31.pdf
Here’s a project where someone is using a PIC to talk to an IDE interface:
pjrc.com/tech/8051/ide/wesley.html
You’ve got power considerations though with bringing onboard a harddrive. If you do, look into laptop harddrive which tend to be smaller, lighter and lower power consuption.
Depending on your space requirements, I’d suggest looking at SD/MMC The interfaces are much simpler and space/power considerations are far more appealing too.
Here’s a breakout board too: sparkfun.com/commerce/produc … 8c0eed00cb
This site looks promising thanks for the link __^