Menu
The Machine
The Idea
The Brain
The Case
The Keyboard
Main Screen
Mini Screens
TFT Screen
RFID Reader
Using the RFID Reader
Designing RFID Cards
LED Lighting
Power Displays
GPS Module
Battery Power
Power Switch
3D Printed Parts
Future Plans
Problems
Something else that was lying around was a GPS module that I was going to use for another project but that didn't work out the way it was expected to work. With that the module has been lying around for a while so why not throw it in with everything else.
What screen the data is to be displayed on, or if it'll just run in the console hasn't been decided but whatever the final solution it will be in keeping with the rest of the project
GPS in the system
The GPS had its breakout soldered on, the external aerial plugged in & added to the mess of cables as you can, almost see in the image below!
The code is being written to get the relevant data to be displayed somewhere. It could be displayed on the TFT screen or just on the console. The plans haven't gone that far ahead...
The code has been written!
The base code has now been completed & it's running in the console. It only uses some of the NMEA Sentence but that's enough to get everything that's needed to get a working GPS system. It's easy to add another part of the system into the system.
It's quite weird the way the NMEA Sentences work as there is quite a lot of overlap of data. The Latitude & Longitude data is pulled from multiple sources so you can either you that or, do as below. Select the one that should appear the most, the "Fix Data Sentence" aka "$GPGGA".
Some parts have been censored for privacy purposes.
