UberTracker - Real-time GPS tracking unit It’s not quite small enough to track your cat, but the Uber Tracker is a beast of a product. This device may seem simple enough: get GPS coordinates and broadcast those coordinates over the cellular network - but it’s so much more! The Uber Tracker has open firmware and hackability. It’s also completely PTCRB and FCC certified meaning it is fully licensed to operate on any GSM network in North America. Configure the unit, power it up, and you’ll get an update every few minutes of the device’s position to your phone, your website, or your SQL database. Could you track your car? Sure. Ever wonder where your donated clothing goes? What about biological samples? It’s ‘big brother’ - but you get to play the older sibling’s role Traffic Message Channel receiver This project used to display and report the main roads traffic status and incident. Here are some features :Dual display: colour road map (left) and detailed text messages (right) both with LED backlight,Up to 120 TMC messages are stored in memory,Auto/manual TMC message scrolling,GPS position locator/follower optional,Map navigation with mouse sensor and/or micro joystick,Map zoom 10km to 80km (in 10km steps) City and area presets preconfigured,High quality NXP TEF6901AH chip used for best performance,Integrated RDS/RBDS radio data demodulator. [via] Wordpress Themes Electronics-Lab.com Blog The electronic hobbyist news blog This is a small GPS logger based on the San Jose Navigation FV-M8 GPS module that stores coordinates, altitude, and speed into an EEPROM.Then a software converts EEPROM stored data into .kml (Google Earth format).Altitude and speed graphs are also generated by the software. Send GPS data to your computer without a micSend GPS data to your corocontroller This project, complete with parts list, explains how to get GPS data into a Mac using a GPS module and a BlueSmirf Bluetooth chip, without any microcontroller. I agree with the maker who posts that a microcontroller would really just add cost to this project. Check out the details at the link below. HALO2 High Altitude Balloon Another successful high altitude balloon flight with some gorgeous images. Alexei writes: High altitude ballooning is an emerging hobby, since the price of GPS and communications equipment has gotten quite low. It is an excellent hobby for people fascinated by space flight and telerobotics and has many learning aspects — from systems design to electronics design to software engineering. There is also an exciting risk factor, namely, that you could lose your precious electronics if something malfunctions. In this project, many of my interest and knowledge areas came together. Also, I have verified that the Earth is indeed round and that space is black. Build a vehicle tracker on the cheap Here’s a how-to on building a low cost vehicle tracker using the Telit GM862-GPS module. The GM862-GPS is a hardware module that supports connections on local GSM networks as well as GPS signals. In addition, this device supports a Python interpreter which allows for easy interfacing to build a simple tracker. Lots of info at the below link. [via] Evaluation board using the ET312 SiRF III GPS receiver The evaluation board using the ET312 SiRF III GPS receiver is finally done! This board will allow you to play with this very small but powerful GPS receiver. DIY - GPS Camera attachment This is a great how-to on building a GPS system for your DSLR camera. The pictures are tagged with the exact GPS coordinates for later reference. Nice work! This version eliminates the need for the expensive MC-35 and even the special 10-pin connector. I’ve opted for a quick GPS receiver and encased everything in a small black box with a flash shoe mount. Because it is powered through the camera’s power source, a switch on the side of the box turns off the GPS. Version 3 should include a battery, rechargeable through a USB connection. [via] GPS-based universal clock generator Almost all commercially available GPS OEM modules provide a 1pps output, synchronized with GPS time. This pulse could be used as a reference to generate accurate high-frequency clocks, but special design has to address the short-term jitter affecting the 1pps signal. As a general guideline, an oven-stabilized crystal oscillator who guarantees the short-term stability is synchronized with the GPS 1pps for the long-term accuracy. LPC2148 controlled GPS car speed and position logger This GPS based car speed and position logger is based on Olimex LPC2148 project board, which is wired to GPS receiver. GPS receiver is interfaced via serial port - so not much of soldering. Software is based on FreeRTOS where ChanFS file system is used for storing logged data in SD/MMC FAT16 formatted card. It also has USB serial port emulation which enables to monitor NMEA sequences or simply retrieve logs as from mass storage device without removing CD/MMC card. Project files for WinARM GCC can be downloaded here. [via] |
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