“PiHut to the rescue again!
Next time I need a microSD card reader for a project I shall be ordering this one from the PiHut for sure.
I love this site, it's so useful in so many ways with a myriad of accessories to make life easier.
Previously I'd been using a commonly found alternative which worked but not if you also wanted to use any other SPI device at the same time! If you'd like to know the reason why all is revealed in this Youtube tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqqFn2jn3p8
Also, this may be of interest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQjtG1MeVs4
However, I've found that this Adafruit module does not have any issues & works like a dream in parallel with other SPI devices. Got me out of a fix without having to modify any products.
Thank you PiHut.”
“Works well, although you're going to need to connect it to something with hardware SPI pins if you want to read/write anything other than the smallest files at a reasonable speed. Note that there seems to be some API discrepancies between the documented library functions and the examples provided, which I'm still trying to resolve. The example code gives you pretty much everything you'll need to do, though.”
