ladyada continues to produce more and more interesting Arduino shields. This new GPS logger plugs into a standard Arduino board and has support for four different GPS receiver modules.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.06.28 at 05:56
This is a nice, compact gps logger that's built around a PIC16F872 and some eeprom chips. It was designed for a particular GPS receiver, but should be easily adaptable to others since the unit ouputs standard sentences at 4800 baud.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.06.25 at 07:16
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 2008.06.17 at 21:45
With the iPhone finally getting legitimate GPS we're bound to see more widespread use of location based apps. Services like Dodgeball, Brightkite, and a few Twitter clients have been around, but failed to tightly integrate with the hosting phone.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.06.10 at 17:54
TomTom's 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 2008.06.08 at 08:59
Artist [Erik Nordenankar] has created the Biggest Drawing In The World. At least that's what his URL says. He used the movement of a GPS device to create a giant single line self portrait on the globe.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.05.24 at 11:59
This "Butterfly GPS" device was built with an ATmega169 microcontroller, a GPS receiver board based on the SiRF chipset, and an LCD screen that reads out the data in real-time as location, date and time.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.05.14 at 08:04
[Gabriel] put together an impressive writeup of his autonomous catamaran, Atlantis(PDF). It was certainly done as an academic project, but there's a thorough explanation of the math logic behind the control systems.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.04.20 at 06:44
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 2008.03.13 at 01:56
Dan writes - "Shock-Proof your Garmin GPS to prevent unintended power-downs. I look at a couple different ways to make the fix, and actually do one of them.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 12:12