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FINDING YOUR WAY WITH GPS

Written by Mikal Hart

EASY

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For makers, it has become quite cheap to incorporate high-quality geospatial data into electronics projects. And in the last few years, GPS receiver modules have grown much more diverse, powerful, and easy to integrate with development boards like Arduino, PIC, Teensy, and Raspberry Pi. If you’ve been thinking of building around GPS, you’ve picked a good time to get started.

COUNTING STARS

One evening I built a little Arduino/GPS test gizmo to spy on the GPS satellite constellation. I was ...

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