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Arduino: Building exciting LED based projects and espionage devices
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Arduino: Building exciting LED based projects and espionage devices

by Adith Jagdish Boloor, Samarth Shah, Utsav Shah, Marco Schwartz
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
495 pages
9h 37m
English
Packt Publishing
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Building a GPS location tracker

It's now time to build the last project of this chapter: a real GPS location tracker. For this project, we'll get the location just as before, using the GPS if available, and the GPRS location otherwise.

However, here we are going to use the GPRS capabilities of the shield to send the latitude and longitude data to dweet.io, which is a service we have used before. Then, we'll plot this data in Google Maps, allowing you to follow your device in real time from anywhere in the world.

As the sketch is very similar to the ones in the previous sections, I'll only detail the most important parts of the sketch here.

You need to define a name for the thing that will contain the GPS location data:

String dweetThing = "mysecretgpstracker"; ...
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ISBN: 9781787121072