
Much of the complexity involved
communication between various technologies.
Some components, like the INA219 current
sensor breakouts from Adafruit, EM-406 GPS
from SparkFun, and LSM303 compass from
Pololu, had sample Arduino code that made
testing easy. Others, like the Quake Q9612 Iridium
transceiver, were more difficult to integrate.
At Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Dylan met
Ryan Muller who joined the team and spent
weekends writing code in the garage for the
boat to communicate with the Iridium module.
Nowadays, options like the RockBlock module
make adding satellite communications to
embedded projects much easier.
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