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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: Admin on March 08, 2007, 03:09:32 PM
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as GPS electronics gets cheaper and easier to work with, ive been thinking about trying it out within the next year or two . . .
the latest one here looks pretty nice:
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8266#
it even claims it could track 9 satellites indoors!
anyone have experience interfacing a GPS to a microcontroller and have thoughts on it to offer to GPS beginners?
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I've yet to see a GPS that works indoors, so if this is the exception, I'd be impressed.
The GPS I have tried generate a more or less continuous 4800 baud stream of data, so you need a serial interface. It's not particularly difficult to decode the data stream.
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wow 32 channels. I've only used the em-402 as seen here
http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=576
NOTE: the em-402 was also used in the feb edition of circuit cellar