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David Sulpy over at Initial State<\/a> has done a great tutorial in which he uses an Adafruit Ultimate GPS board<\/a> to create a GPS tracker system. There is a quick set of instructions here<\/a> and a more comprehensive set here<\/a>. Really interesting project for those of us who like to communicate with satellites and actually use the incoming data for visualisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Sulpy over at Initial State has done a great tutorial in which he uses an Adafruit Ultimate GPS board to create a GPS tracker system. There is a quick set of instructions here and a more comprehensive set here.…<\/p>\n

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