Simon writes in about his SV Chronometer – a GPS based, interactive master clock– This is a little blog post about a device I built to provide me with an accurate time reference I can use to synchronise all the timepieces in my house. It used a GPS module and a PIC 16F628 microcontroller with […]
Integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 via Engadget. Acabtp writes… So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn’t want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a netbook really ought to just have it built in, so that’s what I decided […]
Interesting “GPS-A-Sketch kit” @ The Hacktory… Wil writes – The idea behind the GPS-A-Sketch was to create an open shareable design that many users could use as the foundation for a modular, user-programmable, portable, GPS receiver. As the technology comes down in price (A Garmin eTrex of slightly lower specs can currently be had for […]
Incredibly interesting article about GPS spoofing and the theoretical “hijacking” of a truck via Schneier on Security. Jon Warner of Argonne National Laboratories set out to examine GPS security one Saturday afternoon. Jon is part of the Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT), a small group whose goal is to uncover flaws in our systems so that […]
Wow, this is really cool – Gina from Lifehacker has a Flickr bike that geotags photos and uploads them to a map on Flickr… Solar panels too!
I’m trying to figure out what’s up with this story… People are getting kidnapped – got that part, so they’re getting RFID chips implanted… which helps how? Snippet from the article… The chips cost $4,000 plus an annual fee of $2,200…. Xega, based in the central Mexican city of Quererato, designed global positioning systems to […]
Stunning GPS visualizations from the BBC series “Britain from Above”, the first episode will be broadcast on Sunday 10 August at 2100 on BBC One..
