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SparkFun GPS Dead Reckoning NEO-M8U Hookup Guide

“The u-blox NEO-M8U is a powerful GPS units that takes advantage of untethered dead reckoning (UDR) technology for navigation. The module provides continuous positioning for vehicles in urban environments and during complete signal loss (e.g. short tunnels and …

Autopilot for Sailing Boats (Automatic Steering System)

“Let’s take a break during navigation while Autopilot follows the route, control it with remote control! Story Preface: I love sailing alone because when a man is on the sea with his sailing boat he got everything he needs …

Find Your Way Home With This Circuit Python GPS Locator

“When GPS was first released to consumers, it wasn’t even in the hands or understanding of most people. Early on it was used for pretty unique and esoteric stuff, and in the age before ultra-connected devices that use common …

Bareboat Necessities Projects

“This document describes a DIY project of building a marine computer, a boat LTE/WiFi gateway, and a cockpit chartplotter display from easily obtainable and affordable components. This boat electronics project includes: Waterproof marine touch screen HDMI display GNSS (GPS …

PyonAir - an Open Source Air Pollution Monitor

“The PyonAir is a low-cost system for monitoring local air pollution levels - specifically, particulate matter. Based around the Pycom LoPy4 board and Grove-compatible hardware, the system can transmit data over both LoRa and WiFi. I undertook this project at the …

GPS Monitoring With OLED Display Project

“Hello everyone, in this quick article I will share with you my project :ATGM332D GPS module with SAMD21J18 Microcontroller and SSD1306 OLED 128*64 display, I built a special PCB for it on Eagle Autodesk, and program it using Atmel …

Building a Raspberry PI Stratum 1 NTP Server

“After the nice reception my last article on NTP got, I decided that it was about time I pulled a project off the shelf from a few years ago and get a stratum 1 NTP server running on a Raspberry …

LoRa Tracker/Pager Device

“A device that combines real-time location tracking and two-way pager, over a LoRa mesh network. I have been contacted by a number of people in search and rescue (SAR) who are interested in the other Ripple LoRa mesh projects I …

FPGA Based Binary Clock

“FPGA based binary clock, which uses GPS for the time reference. Introduction Measuring time accurately has through out history presented a number of challenges. It was only with the John Harrison’s design of a reliable clock which could maintain …

M5Stack GPS Logger

“GPS logger that stores your location into a GPX file with a back end web server to view daily rides, add comments and multi-media files. I love to ride my motorcycles! When I go out riding, I typically plan my …