{"id":309,"date":"2005-05-22T02:58:21","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T09:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=309"},"modified":"2005-05-22T03:02:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-22T10:02:27","slug":"gpsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/gpsing\/","title":{"rendered":"GPSing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I Ebayed an OEM GPS module for $25, including shipping. Then<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/wp\/?p=300\"> about a week ago<\/a>, I picked up a Mighty Mouse II from Tri-M Systems. Today, I finally got around to hooking them up. Using a breadbaord, a 5-volt regulator, a 6-volt power supply, a wire wrapper, and a good supply of wirewrap and other wires, I finally hooked it all up today. The result: incoming NMEA data words at 4800 Baud!<\/p>\n<p>I quickly found some free (as in beer) software to help me make sense out of it. VisualGPS showed up in Google, and is working well. See a screenshot below.<\/p>\n<p>This is all in preperation for an entry to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlerobotics.org\">Seattle Robotics Society<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robothon.org\/robothon\/challenge.html\">Robo-Magellan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some pictures of the setup:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/2005.05.22-GPS\/133_3349.jpg\">The Setup<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/2005.05.22-GPS\/133_3352.jpg\">The Breadboard<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/2005.05.22-GPS\/133_3353.jpg\">The GPS receiver &#8211; look at the pretty wirewrapping!<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/2005.05.22-GPS\/133_3357.jpg\" alt=\"Mighty Mouse II on railing\">The Mighty Mouse II Active Antenna (first location)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/2005.05.22-GPS\/133_3359.jpg\">The MMII (second location)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/media\/2005.05.22-GPS\/gps.jpg\">The result<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualgps.net\/\">Visual GPS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I Ebayed an OEM GPS module for $25, including shipping. Then about a week ago, I picked up a Mighty Mouse II from Tri-M Systems. Today, I finally got around to hooking them up. Using a breadbaord, a 5-volt regulator, a 6-volt power supply, a wire wrapper, and a good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,6],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything","tag-technology","tag-trc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcanius.silverfir.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}