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Project  BikePin

BikePin

“BikePin is a small device hidden in the construction of a bicycle which its owner can message and the device will send the bikes location The main idea to the project is to have a hidden GPS tracker, that you …

Build a TTN LoRa Gateway with balenaFin and balenaCloud

“Set up a gateway for The Things Network using plug-and-play parts with the balenaFin Raspberry Pi Compute Module carrier board. Story We’ve taken a look at deploying a gateway for TTN on our blog in the past, but this …

an open-source alternative to GPS, called Aweigh

“Aweigh is an open navigation system that does not rely on satellites: it is inspired by the mapping of celestial bodies and the polarized vision of insects. Ancient seafarers and desert ants alike use universally accessible skylight to organize, orient …

GPS uses 10 bits to store the week. That means it runs out… oh heck - April 6, 2019

“Nav gadgets will be Gah, Properly Screwed if you don’t or can’t update firmware Older satnavs and such devices won’t be able to use America’s Global Positioning System properly after April 6 unless they’ve been …

Holebot (Pothole Detector)

“A fully autonomous pothole detector that updates a visual backend in real-time, and also provides detailed data stored on an SD card. Story Each year, Renault hosts a contest of hacking its Twizy platform (a design based on an electric …

Arduino + GPS Module - Destination Notifier

“How much time do we waste in traffic jams? I made an Arduino-powered destination notifier to utilize this time in a productive way. Everyone knows that traffic jams can be a major time waster. And it is impossible to predict …

GPS Tracking System with Arduino Uno and Digilent PmodGPS

“This project is a GPS tracking system with LCD display using an Arduino Uno and a Digilent PmodGPS. Story Project Motivation This project is a subsystem of a larger project that I was a part of for my UW Bothell …

FinduCar: a Smart Car Key Guiding People to Where the Car Is Parked

“In order to solve the problems above, this project proposes to develop a smart car key which could direct people to where they parked the car. And my plan is integrating a GPS into the car key. There is no …

I2C GPS Module PCB

“This is a compact GPS module with an I2C interface, making it easy to read the GPS parameters from another project without needing to worry about parsing the NMEA sentences. It’s a PCB-mounted version of my earlier project …

Improved Personal Compass

“I found the personal compass project at Instructables.com quite interesting. Basically, a personal compass works like a regular compass, but instead of pointing to magnetic north, it points to a particular location of personal interest. Maybe it is pointing …