[dgoeken] sent in his Magellan 3100 hack. The device runs Windows CE 5. 0, and mounts as a standard flash drive. Since everything is easily accessible, it’s just a matter of replacing and modifying the appropriate files.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 03:16
TomToms have been getting pretty cheap. We like ‘em because they’re nice and hackable. This diy docking station was made from some etched PCBs, a bunch of male pin headers and a bit of hot glue.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 03:12
UPDATE: The text: “This is fictional work. DHL did not transport the GPS at any time” has been added to the bottom of the page since the original posting.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 03:12
Since water blocks the radio frequency used for GPS triangulation, GPS is considered pretty useless for SCUBA divers. Apparenlty some of them are finding it useful to waterproof off the shelf units for tracking the beginning and end of dives.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 03:11
GpsPasSion forum member [Ospray] has released a new version of MioPocket. For those of you that don’t know, MioPocket is a great unlock kit for GPS units.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 03:09
[superlopez] sent in this detailed article (mirrored here and here) which describes how to build a GPS and GLONASS (the Russian version of GPS) receiver.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 02:43
[leatix] sent in this one after seeing the weather balloon logger the other day. In this case, it’s built around a Mega8, stores the log on a MMC/SD card and runs on a LiIon battery.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 02:43
A short while back, [Chris Anderson] released an Arduino based autopilot. It rings in fairly cheap and being open source, you can tweak away. To add more functionality, he’s releasing a dual core version.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 02:42
Here’s a quick hack to satiate our appetite for location aware applications. The Dash Express is a GPS unit with cellular and WiFi radios so it can do two way communication.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 02:37
It’s been a while since we talked about putting a GPS on top of a D200. [Rick] sent in his latest version. He used a nice 20 channel sirf III gps from spark-fun, a cheap D200 remote cable and a few parts to send the NMEA sentences down the wire.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.09.16 at 02:37