Crennsmind tweeted: With the help of a Bus Pirate and a PCI Express GPS module I saw on @hackaday, I finally have GPS Get an assembled Bus Pirate for $30, including world-wide shipping. Also available from our friendly distributors.
Todd Harrison, member of the Superstition Amateur Radio Club (SARC), posted this video by Steve Bowen: APRS and GPS networking, operations and theory This presentation does not cover how to setup and use Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) but does … Read more
Want to keep track of your trips from anywhere you are? Here’s a DIY GPS to SD-card data logger/compass by Ktulu: Earlier this year I have bought on the flea market a used car GPS system, an Amstrad gp1000. (Un)fortunately it … Read more
Emeryth discovered that these cheap laptop PCI GPS modules can easily be interfaced with microcontrollers. On the back of the board there are testpoints which he identified as UART and USB. The USB is recognized as a CDC-ACM standard virtual … Read more
Brian writes: I made a single circuit board version of Arduiniana’s famous “Reverse Geocache” box lately. It is based off a PIC instead of an Arduino and incorporates all of the required electronics into one package, saving money and packaging … Read more
At DEFCON 20, Fergus Noble and Colin Beighley discussed the basics of GPS operation and how hackers can access and use its data. They have developed and released a new set of tools which they hope will make GPS accessible … Read more
Boris Landoni draws our attention to the GSM GPS shield for Arduino designed by Open Electronics. “The shield is designed and based on the module GSM/GPRS SIM900 or the GSM/GPRS & GPS module SIM908, to make calls, voice and data … Read more
Epninety shows how to add GPS to a Tablet PC that doesn’t have one: A nice simple project, which made an otherwise tired tablet into a useful piece of kit, with the added benefit that when things go wrong off-road, … Read more
Jeremy built a tiny GPS receiver into a “Altoids” case. This unit is explained in the video above, but is basically a GPS receiver, 1 CR1220 battery for the RTC on the GPS breakout, one of my Square Inch of … Read more
Libelium has introduced their 3G/GPRS shield for Arduino (3G + GPS). It enables connectivity to high speed WCDMA and HSPA cellular networks, and includes GPS. “The GPS module also makes it possible to perform geolocation services even in indoors as … Read more
Ezflyr’s GPS-based clock uses the GlobalSat EM-406 module to show the time with around 1 second accuracy. Here is a photo of the completed GPS Display Time Standard I intend to use for setting a variety of clock projects I’ve … Read more
Boris suggests we look at this GSM/GPRS and GSM modem. A modem GSM & GPRS with SIM900 or SIM908 module. Allows you to create data connections on the GSM network through a standard USB interface. The cellular modems, particularly USB-stick … Read more
Tyler of coobrolabs writes about his latest open source project, The Coobro Geo is an Arduino compatible through-hole GPS kit that allows you to navigate using only LEDs for direction and distance. It is built around the awesome Fastrax UP501 … Read more
The VPN1513 GPS Receiver Module is a newly released combination GPS receiver and Parallax Propeller mini dev board. It uses a SiRF Star III chipset capable of tracking up to 20 satellites. The module supports both “raw” output mode for … Read more
Here’s a good video from Kevin Darrah for those new to GPS basics demonstrating how to interface the Parallax GPS module with the Arduino. Note that while this video is based on the discontinued PMB-248 module, Parallax indicates that their … Read more
Sahas Kata had a minor run in with the law, an officer claimed he was speeding, 40 in a 25. fortunately he was running tracking software on his new droid phone. once in court he asked the officer when he … Read more
For his USC Rocket Propulsion Lab, Chris Fenton designed this project using a Picaxe 18X microcontroller which accepts a GPS NMEA data stream, pulls out the altitude and logs it to a 24LC512 external EEPROM. Upon recovery the data is … Read more
STMicroelectronics announces the impending release of Teseo II, a new generation of single-chip stand-alone positioning receivers for Portable Navigation Devices, in-car navigation and telematics applications. These Systems-on-Chips are monolithic devices capable of receiving signals from multiple satellite navigation systems, including … Read more
In his project, Binu from avrprojects.info interfaces a ProGin SR-87 GPS module with an ATtiny2313 and 2×16 LCD to generate a running lat/long display. The device also will store one static location, and produce an audible alert each time that … Read more
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 … Read more
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