20 June 09

Tracker

GPS tracker setup Continuing down my list of projects following going to the Maker Faire, I just built a GPS tracker, the OpenTracker+. It’s the lowest of the three gizmos in the photo (the upper two are my handitalkie and my Garmin GPS).

We use these GPS trackers a lot while working the Double Century: they report the position of the sag vehicles so the folks back at start/finish (including me this year at net control) can keep track of where all the support vehicles are. I decided it would be fun to build one of these units, and finished the project this afternoon. Half the effort was putting the cabling together. After configuring the tracker, and checking the website where these locations end up being displayed, I can report it all works!

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