Video of cool of German-made four-prop micro-drones with such features as hand-motion control, GSM networked communications (swarms!), GPS mapping, mounted cameras, and more.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:53
Bjoern writes - "Here is a quick and dirty hack to perform mobile GPS-referenced Google Map searches on your laptop (e. g. , where's the next coffee shop around here?).
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:53
Wow, Sony has a little GPS device that will sync/tag your photos with the location they were taken (via a time stamp and software) - back in 2004 I used a GPS and a hacked camera to do the same thing, well, a DIY blackbox for cars - it was an ugly hack but worked! - Link.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:52
Brady over on Radar posted up about GeoRSS, a very simple to use OGC format that extends RSS by adding location data, can now be consumed via Google Maps and the Google maps API - here's a blurb from Google.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:51
We don't normally chase after commercial products, but when I ran across this guys work, I was impressed. My favorite has to be this solar powered GPS logger.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:49
Hack-A-Day friend [Limor] AKA [ladyada] has been promising a portable RF jammer for a while. guess what she sent me for Christmas? The Wave-bubble is a self tuning RF jammer - good for around 20 feet of RF enforced peace.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:48
Kevin writes - "I have been searching for a good way to connect a Nikon D200 to a GPS in order to geocode photos. I have not found a solution that I thought was near a reasonable price.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:48
Alex writes -
My goal is to build a kind of a mobile tracker. There are many different use cases you can think of but one of the obvious is a device, that is able to report where it is.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:46
From the author of Blackberry hacks - "Running Logs for Google Maps is a software package that lets you automatically upload your runs from a GPS watch (like the Garmin Forerunner 201 or 301) to your web site to be displayed in a nifty Google Map.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:45
CMPalmer writes "This may be old hat to most, but I've posted an example of using GPS tracklogs and Google Earth to virtually recreate vacation trips.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:45