#22 Using an SD card to log data - and how to improve the reliability!

How to interface an inexpensive SD Card Reader / Writer to your Arduino using an SPI bus - easier than you might think.

I also describe some simple modifications you can make to improve the reliability of the hardware, and (courtesy of Adafruit) enhance the functionality of the library software.

If you're logging a temperature, counting the number of bees going into your hive, monitoring the rain level or whatever you need a reliable way of logging that data to an SD card - without coming back a week later to find there is no data written to the card!

Using an inexpensive, widely available SD module , this video tells you everything you need to know to make your SD logging module as robust as you can without breaking the bank.

Link to the final code - remember if you get an error with the SD.end you need the new, improved library, as described here:

Demo Code link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/blpdw5mwq5p7sv1/AACaqXSsjNwjfPzGbYjFh1DSa?dl=0

New, improved SD library (courtesy of Adafruit) : https://github.com/adafruit/SD Just click the download button and extract the SD library into your library folder and delete the original one in the library your Arduino folder (under Program Files (x86)) as this one supersedes it.

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