The Garmin HUD+ was a small Bluetooth device intended for the dashboard of a car, meant to be used as a GPS heads-up display for data from Garmin smartphone apps. It used a bright VFD (vacuum fluorescent display) which was viewed through a clear reflector, and displayed GPS information and directions. It was discontinued in …
Air quality can have a big impact on your health, but it isn’t always something you can see. [Ahmed Oyenuga] wanted to make air quality something more tangible and developed an Interactive Air Quality Map. Using addressable LEDs and acrylic panels, [Oyenuga]’s map lights up different regions of his state (Lagos) with colors that correspond to …
HACKADAY PRIZE 2022: THIS INTERACTIVE AIR QUALITY MAP MAKES THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE Read More »
Robotic fish is a biomimicking of a real-world fish being developed with a view to enable surface level cleaning of water bodies. Introduction Robotic fish is a biomimicking of a real-world fish being developed with a view to enable surface level cleaning of water bodies. The fish monitors the pH levels of the water that …
PATROL FISH TO COLLECT AND CHECK THE CONTAMINATION OF A WATER BODY Read More »
This is a bicycle journey recording device utilizing Arduino and a GPS module. I’m riding an electrical bicycle from time to time during weekends. Several good bicycle riding routes which pass by the lakes and parks are located near to my house. Therefore, bicycle riding become a favorite personal pastime recently. For planning the next …
Bicycle Journey Tracker With Arduino and GPS Module Read More »
Do I need to say more about GPS? See here for some background info: Global Positioning System (GPS) In this tutorial, I will be showing you how to use Arduino, a GPS Arduino shield and a SD card to make a handheld Arduino GPS logger, to record your latitude and longitude over the course of a day. …
Argos is a satellite-based system that collects, processes, and disseminates environmental data from fixed and mobile platforms worldwide. What makes Argos unique is the ability to geographically locate the source of the data anywhere on the Earth utilizing the Doppler effect. The Argos system itself comprises of six satellites, which follow polar orbits at an altitude of about 850km (530 …
ARRIBADA HORIZON PLATFORM – AN OPEN SOURCE BASED ARGOS TRANSMITTER. Read More »
A recent tour of an old WWII-era aircraft carrier reminded us how hard navigation was before the advent of GPS. It used to be the work of skilled people to sight the sun or the stars and use giant books to figure out a vessel’s position. Now you just ask your phone to listen to …
In this post I’m going to write about my experiments with interfacing a low-cost serial GPS module directly to uLisp, to create projects such as a GPS clock: I’ll also describe a GPS speedometer and odometer, and a simple navigator, in later posts. The module I used is the GP-20U7, a small GPS module available …
CODE: download final project code: Arduino Code download additional wiring_analog.c code: Wiring Code download processing code: Processing Code download C code: C CODE FILE EXPLANATION: The final project code is the final arduino code for the project. The wiring_analog.c code should ONLY be used for KITS that USE the OZONE SENSOR. This code helps to …
u-blox, a global provider of leading positioning and wireless communication technologies, has announced its new ultra-robust meter-level M9 global positioning technology platform, designed for demanding automotive, telematics, and UAV applications. Thanks to its high performance GNSS chip, UBX-M9140, the M9 technology platform and the NEO-M9N, the first module based on the platform, can receive signals from up …
U-BLOX’S LATEST METER-LEVEL POSITIONING TECHNOLOGY OFFERS ENHANCED GNSS PERFORMANCE Read More »
XYNX (pronounced ikz-sync) is being launched on Crowdsupply by Fairwaves. it is based on the success of the Octopack SDR (software-defined radio) and the feedback the firm received from the original Octopack users. It is designed for situations or use cases that involve large band of spectrum monitoring or massive MIMO system and it comes …
THE ULTIMATE LOW-COST MASSIVE MIMO SDR, WITH UP TO 32×32 TRANSMIT/RECEIVE CHANNELS Read More »
Hey, what’s up, Guys! Akarsh here from CETech. GPS-based location tracking is one of the very important services nowadays. We use this to find a path to our destination and also track the position of our goods using this. But have you ever heard of location tracking without using GPS? Today we are going to discuss …
BLE & LoRa Based Indoor Location Tracker Without GPS Read More »
