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I remember - or maybe am mis-remembering - that years ago, SD cards used to exist with wifi access. I'm not sure whether you could read the card remotely? Or the card presented itself as a card, but actually streamed your data? But I remember that they existed? But the thing that struck me even more is that - again, I may be wrong - those cards actually ran Linux? They were super tiny computers? In a sense, I find it…
I remember - or maybe am mis-remembering - that years ago, SD cards used to exist with wifi access. I'm not sure whether you could read the card remotely? Or the card presented itself as a card, but actually streamed your data? But I remember that they existed? But the thing that struck me even more is that - again, I may be wrong - those cards actually ran Linux? They were super tiny computers? In a sense, I find it…
I have one of these $2000 SD cards in my Diamond DA40. It lets me connect my iPad to my aircraft so I can transfer updated databases, flight plans, and see real time avionics data. It's pretty cool. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/155337/
I remember - or maybe am mis-remembering - that years ago, SD cards used to exist with wifi access. I'm not sure whether you could read the card remotely? Or the card presented itself as a card, but actually streamed your data? But I remember that they existed? But the thing that struck me even more is that - again, I may be wrong - those cards actually ran Linux? They were super tiny computers? In a sense, I find it…
Indeed, you are thinking of the eye-fi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-Fi
(Having my old feed reader archives is useful! >smile<)
I remember - or maybe am mis-remembering - that years ago, SD cards used to exist with wifi access. I'm not sure whether you could read the card remotely? Or the card presented itself as a card, but actually streamed your data? But I remember that they existed? But the thing that struck me even more is that - again, I may be wrong - those cards actually ran Linux? They were super tiny computers? In a sense, I find it…
Some early wireless cards used SDIO to communicate with the host computer. These are long gone.
There were also some later SD cards which contained an embedded controller running Linux, which emulated an SD storage card and exposed its contents over wireless. The latter are what that article was about.
I have one of these $2000 SD cards in my Diamond DA40. It lets me connect my iPad to my aircraft so I can transfer updated databases, flight plans, and see real time avionics data. It's pretty cool. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/155337/
What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing. You could get the best of both worlds, better sensors and lenses, and simple developing within seconds. I know there are cameras with built-in WiFi that do this but camera manufacturers seem to let their software become outdated quickly.
I wish camera manufacturers just used Android on their devices, with possibly 5G for geotagging and time sync. It would immediately solve all the connectivity issues.
I have one of these $2000 SD cards in my Diamond DA40. It lets me connect my iPad to my aircraft so I can transfer updated databases, flight plans, and see real time avionics data. It's pretty cool. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/155337/
Database updates are still using SD cards though, but just a normal one as far as I know.
I have one of these $2000 SD cards in my Diamond DA40. It lets me connect my iPad to my aircraft so I can transfer updated databases, flight plans, and see real time avionics data. It's pretty cool. https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/155337/
Aside: Is the DA40 as cool as it seems? >smile I've flown some 172s. When the DA40 came out I thought it seemed like a really, really neat airplane. I got some marketing lit and talked to people about it from Diamond at Sun 'n Fun (in 2004, I think). It's nothing I could have even remotely approach buying then (or now, unless I wanted to live in it, I guess) but I just wanted to soak up some of the aura of the thing.