Larry Littlefield, KB7KMO, writes: I want to be able to run openCPN on both a laptop and a tablet at the same time. I would like the laptop down below deck, safe from the rain and salt water spray. I would like to have a mostly waterproof tablet in the cockpit to monitor progress. And […]
Tag Archives: NMEA
Simple Arduino SD-Card GPS/NMEA Datalogger
KF5OBS writes: This article is going to show how to build a minimalistic GPS datalogger. The GPS logger is based on the Arduino platform and stores raw NMEA sentences from pretty much any GPS module to a SD card. More details at KF5OBS blog.
Setup a GPS receiver with the Bus Pirate
Krishna writes with a followup to his previous post, Using Bus Pirate to interface a MT3318 GPS receiver: …the idea is to change the settings of the GPS module so that we need not modify Bus Pirate settings each time we connect it to the PC. NMEA stands for National Marine Electronics Association. When you […]
TK-1315LA GPS connection guide
The tiny TK-1315LA GPS tracks up to 20 satellites, and runs from battery-friendly 3.3volts. Tayken demonstrates how to connect the Bus Pirate and get NMEA position data from the device.
Bus Pirate and FSA03 GPS how-to
Ril3y shows how to use a FSA03 GPS with the Bus Pirate: I have a few projects that I would like to include GPS data in, in the near future. So I went ahead and picked up a nice ublox based GPS. You can get it here: I wanted to used it right away. So […]