A few days ago, one of [Severin]’s SD cards died on him, Instead of trashing the card, he decided to investigate what was actually wrong with the card and ended up recovering most of the data… ...

A maker developer has squeezed an Arduino onto an SD card. His aim was to go one better than Intel’s Edison. Already dubbed SDuino, it is kodera2t’s entry for the Hackaday Prize. “Once I was excited ...

solution: cheaper chip that runs the bootoader from the SD card, something beefier like the Mega gets programmed. Or better yet, it programs several, selected by a multiplex system.