GPS Robots

A.C. fishing

Whatt is the easiest to hack, cheapest and most compatible GPS system with the BS2? Are there some books on GPS robots?
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jsmasterking

I saw this one: http://www.garmin.com/products/gps35/

about $180 but this guy said it was good to hack: http://vpizza.org/~jmeehan/balloon/

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Post Edited (jsmasterking) : 6/21/2006 12:44:35 PM GMT

Homer Man

If you want cheap E-bay is always your friend....

http://cgi.ebay.com/OEM-NMEA-GPS-Module-Quick-Shipping-Via-Priority-Mail_W0QQitemZ5872088381QQcategoryZ4668QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Has a RS-232 Level Shifter is installed, outputs NMEA data once powered up @ 4800,8,N,1.

It needs an external active antenna such as this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/GPS-EXTERNAL-ACTIVE-MMCX-ANTENNA-4-CF-BLUETOOTH-GPS_W0QQitemZ5861157916QQcategoryZ73348QQcmdZViewItem

You will need to resolve the connector differences but that shouldn't be a big issue.

Have fun

Kevin