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Global Positioning System. Uses satellites to determine geographic location.

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Can I use a GPS from old Garmin with an Arduino?

I'm working on an Arduino project, and I'd like to add GPS functionality. I could buy a GPS module, but those are expensive. I had an old Garmin Forerunner 305 lying around, so I took it apart and took a peek inside. There are two PCBs - one…
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GPS very short distance calculation

I'm currently working on a project involving making a "parent-child distance warning system" with my Flora board + Ultimate GPS Module (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1059). I'm on the preliminary phase and just trying to retrieve the current GPS…
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Data Report Which Technology

I want to create a small position reporter for cars. I found some good GPS Modules with which i could collect data. But i'm unsure with what technology i should send the data. A possibility would be to setup a service in the www which is feeded by…
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Building a gps system

I'd like to build a simple GPS system. It should be very little. For the software side, I will build an API, so from my PC/smartphone/whatever else I could ask the GPS system where it is located (I think Google provides this kind of feature). How…
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Galileo Positioning System signal receiving

I want to determine my arduino's position. However, I want to use the European Galileo system instead of the US-American GPS. Therefore, I searched for any possibilities receiving the Galileo signals. I figured out, that u-blox has some receivers:…
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Alternative to GPS location being calculated by radius around a point

Hopefully the thread title isn't confusing - I'm trying to find out how would it be possible to make a different way of proximity warning with GPS. Default/simplest way is by forming a radius around a goal waypoint, so the proximity criteria will…
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GPS led not blinking and wrong LAT Long values

I want to extract the latitude and longitude values of my location but my gps led is not blinking. Also result appearing on the serial monitor is wrong. This is my Arduino code: #include #include SoftwareSerial…
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Can I hook up a compass directly to my GPS module?

I have a Parallax PMB-688 GPS module I'm using with an Arduino and was wondering if I could hook up a compass directly to my GPS. The GPS has an RX port which I hypothesized a compass could be attached to but I don't know if the GPS would be able to…
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No data from U-Blox Neo-6M

I'm trying to get Neo-6M module to work with Arduino Uno, but it just isn't transmitting any data. It is getting 3.3V. I've tried measuring the Amps and I got zero, so I'm afraid that the module could be broken. Neo-6M wiring: Arduino wiring…
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GPS North? South? East? West?

I'm using the Adafruit SIM808 breakout board to text a GPS link to Google Maps when pinged. My program is mostly working, but the GPS data that I get has no "N, S, E, W" indicators. In addition, I know that the longitude where I live is negative but…
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Arduino Ultimate GPS Logger Issue

I am new to electronics and learning how to play around with arduino. I recently purchased the Arduino ultimate GPS Logger, and despite also buying an external anntenae the GPS data shows that it does not fix at all. Despite leaving the unit powered…
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GPS stream question

I have an adafruit Ultimate GPS unit, its working fine. I am reading the GPS stream, via the command line, and one of the details, is "Angle: 167.97" I looked at a page about GPS sentences, but I'm still confused. Angle, is the direction of wind, or…
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No serial data from Adafruit GPS (on Arduino 101)

New Adafruit GPS connected to my Arduino 101 board. When trying to use the RX/TX hardware serial (on digital pins 0 / 1), with a simple sketch (described by Adafruit) to output a serial response, I'm not seing anything in the serial monitor (9600…
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Tracking Device Using Arduino UNO, GSM and GPS

I'm using SIM900A and GY NEO6MV2. I'm supposed to receive device location continuously after sending "Staff" to GSM and will stop receiving the location if I send "Stop" to GSM. This work on Serial monitor but not on my cellphone. #include…
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GPS timestamping of digitized voltages from geophones

I wonder if anyone has written a code for GPS time stamping of voltages from seismic geophone (or any other sensors) digitized by internal or better external ADC connected to Arduino? Since the accuracy of at least 1 millisecond is required I…
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