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Step 8Extras
After a little discussion in the comments and elsewhere, I have taken a more permanent approach to this idea. I have found that by bending the pins in the same fashion for a single row of right angle header and attaching that to the PCB or perfboard, you have a flat, robust SD socket. This is best suited for the final version of a circuit, a one off custom circuit, or a good prototype without waiting for th final socket. I recommend bending the pins a bit more in the first step so to ensure that all are making good contact. Bending them back a little more in the second step is better as well. I did each one individually with pliers and holding the pins in visegrips this time.
Plus there aren't any pins on the backplane that could short against something! Thats never a good thing.
Thanks to frollard for the idea!
I've also included a pinout of an SD card by request. Here's the deal with the pins. An SD card has two modes, SD and SPI. Specifics on these can easily be found on wikipedia's SD card page. For the Arduino, however, only the SPI mode can be used. The SPI mode only uses pins 1-7, leaving off the small one and the recessed one (8 and 9). SD mode rearranges some pins and uses all of them.
Here is the pinout for SPI mode:
..._._._._._._._._._.
../...1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8|
/..9........................_|
1 - Chip Select*
2 - Data Input*
3 - Ground
4 - 3V3
5 - Clock*
6 - Ground
7 - Data Output*
8 - NC
9 - NC
*these are 3.3V logic lines. All but 7 are inputs to the card, and so must be brought down to 3.3V from 5V when using the Arduino Duemillenove. 7 is an output, and the Arduino can recognize 3.3V as high, so no voltage converter is necessary here.
Wikipedia has some great info on SD cards,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card
and pinouts.ru has a good writeup on the pinout,
http://pinouts.ru/Memory/sdcard_pinout.shtml
Plus there aren't any pins on the backplane that could short against something! Thats never a good thing.
Thanks to frollard for the idea!
I've also included a pinout of an SD card by request. Here's the deal with the pins. An SD card has two modes, SD and SPI. Specifics on these can easily be found on wikipedia's SD card page. For the Arduino, however, only the SPI mode can be used. The SPI mode only uses pins 1-7, leaving off the small one and the recessed one (8 and 9). SD mode rearranges some pins and uses all of them.
Here is the pinout for SPI mode:
..._._._._._._._._._.
../...1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8|
/..9........................_|
1 - Chip Select*
2 - Data Input*
3 - Ground
4 - 3V3
5 - Clock*
6 - Ground
7 - Data Output*
8 - NC
9 - NC
*these are 3.3V logic lines. All but 7 are inputs to the card, and so must be brought down to 3.3V from 5V when using the Arduino Duemillenove. 7 is an output, and the Arduino can recognize 3.3V as high, so no voltage converter is necessary here.
Wikipedia has some great info on SD cards,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card
and pinouts.ru has a good writeup on the pinout,
http://pinouts.ru/Memory/sdcard_pinout.shtml
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Also, its real cheap!
You would not hapend to know what the protocol to use?