By LDR (9 years old) (+dad)IntroductionIn this game, you roll coins down a ramp onto a board with foil islands. When the coins make a bridge from one side to the other, it is a complete circuit and an LED lights up. Simple series circuit with ...
Today was spent soldering the Pi Shim and finding out exactly how bad my soldering skills were. Overall though not too bad and once completed it was time to mount the GPS on the microstack and the subassembly onto the Pi. Once powered up I follo...
In Part II: OS Configuration and Software Installation & Update, I showed how I configured the OS and installed software. In this part III, I will show the problem of SHIM and how I made it work. To test the kit, I first tried cgps program a...
Finally got to unboxing the hardware and seeing what was supplied for the geocaching build. The Pi2 looks good, particularly with the additional USBs and the reduced footprint with the micro-SD card. I mounted the Raspberry on a board that I can...
For those of you who want to get into lower level programming and high speed applications, c++ is a magnitude faster than Python. Especially when it comes to parsing NMEA strings. At 1hz 9600 baud the performance gain isn't noticeable, bu...
If you want to use your GPS for more real time applications or for doing some software accuracy improvement you will most likely need a higher output speed.To get a higher output speed from the L80 GPS module you need to increase the rate/frequency. ...
Raspberry Pi Geocaching System (Pi Hiker)Author: Bob AlexanderA kid friendly, high accuracy geocaching platform.Accuracy of the GPS location could be improved by putting the L80 into 10Hz mode and then performing an averaging and filtering function s...
Getting excited to let this TB loose in the big wideOpen world. Here it is all dressed up. Have set the Goal to travel to Wanaka to experience the beautyOf New Zealand. Maybe I can meet it there one Day.......
I was thinking this little kit might make an excellent ground station for my model aircraft.I have a little 900MHz telemetry system that could be connected over serial to the Pi and I should be able to use the Pi to send commands to the UAV... W...
Just a simple Python script to display the location data to the LCD (PiFace CAD):*This is not by any means a clean program - I haven't removed unneeded imports and the display portion includes a counter I was intending to use but haven't implemented ...
After a bit of trouble, I was able to get the basic GPS functions working!┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐┌─────────────────────────────────┐│ Time: 2015-08-06T02:07:10.000Z &nbs...
I won a Raspberry Pi 2 GPS kit!My intent is to create a kid friendly, high accuracy geocaching platform that my daughters can use when hiking.Technical specs:Accuracy of the GPS location could be improved by putting the L80 into 10Hz mode and then pe...
The element14 trackables are running free around the world, and scurrying into the far corners of the global geocaching arena thanks to a legion of members who've set them loose. To celebrate our treasure-hunting helpers we've put together a ...
Being selected for the geocaching build is fairly awesome.It does raise the challenge of exactly what to build.My partner is a geocaching fanatic - but is often cursing at the handheld dedicated GPS unit she uses.Often it fails to provide a good posi...
What is it about Nikola Tesla that inspires engineers around the world? The slights he suffered at the hands of his close-minded, condescending boss, Thomas Edison, who refused to see the potential of alternating current? The breathtaking ...
Silicon Valley folklore holds that William Shockley, a brilliant physicist who headed up Bell Labs solid-state group after World War II, could never accept that his employees, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, received credit for discovering the prop...
History teaches that Wilbur and Orville Wright successfully performed the first motorized human flight on December 17, 1903. But were they the first to do so? For years, there has been an alternative theory about a little-known inventor in ...
Congratulations from element14 ! Out of an incredible 400+ entries requesting the Raspberry Pi 2 GPS kit, ten people from across the globe presented themselves with an application putting forward projects and enthusiasm abound that have earned t...
Hi Everyone. Here are the newest suggestions. Which of the suggested entries below stand out to you and should be included in the Atlas? Are there any you think we should not include? Given that we're a community of electronic engineers, it's no...
Hi Everyone. As you know, we've been busy adding new locations to our Atlas of Scientific Achievement above. We're now up to ~120 data points tracking everything from the invention of the first transistor to the formulation of the Big Bang theor...
The Raspberry PiRaspberry Pi has been a huge phenomenon in the maker scene, spawning a wide range of accessories, add-ons and even specialised 'Hats'. One of the most underappreciated peripherals would have to be the small Raspberry Pi camera boardRa...
I've always been an active sort of guy. I've played many sports over the years; Football, Basketball, Cricket, Rugby you name it I'm pretty sure I've at least tried it. I also love to walk and have loved being in the woods since I was...
