Reading Files from usb flash drive and display its content of LCD.

How can we read files from usb flash drive, select the file we want to show, and then show that particular file's content on a LCD? Which controller is suitable for this project and how can we do this?

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vsluiter over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

If you'd like to use a microcontroller and go for a USB device instead of SD card I would suggest to NOT do Arduino or 8051, but some device with USB support built-in. The mbed board I mentioned has software…
fvan over 8 years ago in reply to softwareinthecloud +1

This thread is nearly 4 years old. Perhaps you could create a new thread and list the requirements for your application or specify what you need help with?

0 vsluiter over 11 years ago
What kind of LCD do you have in mind?

Use a Raspberry Pi with a screen
Get an mbed LPC1768 and an application board, that already has a 2-line LCD and a USB host port.
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0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to vsluiter

i am planing to use 16x2 LCD display and 8051 microcontroller or arduino board.
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0 colecago over 11 years ago

What is in the files? Text only? Or pictures, videos, etc?

The easiest and cheapest way is probably pi or beaglebone and a small screen.
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0 Former Member over 11 years ago in reply to colecago

the file would be text file
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0 vsluiter over 11 years ago in reply to Former Member
If you'd like to use a microcontroller and go for a USB device instead of SD card I would suggest to NOT do Arduino or 8051, but some device with USB support built-in.
The mbed board I mentioned has software and hardware support for a USB file system, and several libraries for LCD display.
ChaNFSUSB - a mercurial repository | mbed
http://mbed.org/cookbook/mbed-application-board#14-usb-host <- this link already does part of what you want!!!

You can buy the Application board and mbed at several sources, also Farnell. The designs are open, so you can choose to cut a lot of the cost later on if you're tranisitioning to something further than a prototype
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0 softwareinthecloud over 8 years ago in reply to vsluiter

I was just wondering if it would be possible to get this board bit more cheaper.
The $60 mark is way too much.
Also I need to get around 1GB of flash memory.
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0 fvan over 8 years ago in reply to softwareinthecloud

This thread is nearly 4 years old. Perhaps you could create a new thread and list the requirements for your application or specify what you need help with?
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0 softwareinthecloud over 8 years ago in reply to fvan

Sure will do.
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