Re: [PLUG] more thoughts on usb flash drives

[epike <edward.pike@thomson.com>]

here are also some pictures of my server wiring mods
(May of 2003):

http://www.madugas.org/dump/

these are just radio shack parts.  The 
case is aluminum Lian-Li.

the CF reader I believe its a "Enermax"
CF reader, i could have bought it either
on www.compgeeks.com or directron.com.

Be careful with readers though, some
of them are not recognized or difficult
to work right--the enermax one worked
out of the box with redhat 7.2.

Here are also some of my early attempts
on the software side--earlier i tried
to pull this off with pcmcia and no
pushbutton.  This never worked right.
At least this would give some ideas
you could use (the software here
is bad though and needs updating):

http://jondzpic.sourceforge.net/

I've been planning to update the website
but never got around to do it yet.

e.pike

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:22:45 -0500
"eric@lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 05:05:28PM -0500, epike wrote:
> > speaking of those usb drives, i have one of those
> > compact flash reader that attaches to usb.  
> > Now i also built myself a serial pushbutton
> > with LED lights indicator and used thte button
> > to trigger launch a perl program (i've copied
> > the wiring diagram from the internet).  Teh perl
> > program gobbles whatever jpg files are in the
> > card.  The result is i have a headless server
> > which i can load my digital camera card
> > into.  pictures are served by ftp, samba
> > and web. 
> > 
> > thought i'd like to share that.  I'd have
> > worked on a lcd display on the server too if
> > i had enough time...
> > 
> > e pike
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 16:24:56 -0500
> > sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> wrote:
> > 
> 
> Could you share that diagram/site with us and tell how you get the perl
> program to run from the serial input?  I'd like to use something similar
> for downloading pictures from my digital camera.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Eric
> 
> -- 
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