Let me start out by saying I am not an electronics and technology kind of guy. If it needs batteries then they will die when you need something to work the most. If it's electric and "water proof" the ...

GPS is the modern answer to the ancient question about one’s place in the world yet it has its limitations. It depends on the time of flight of radio signals emitted by satellites twenty thousand ...

Using a basic GPS-specific chip and some standard support ICs, you can build a USB dongle that provides GPS capability with a Windows PC, enabling geolocation functions and features. Starting with ...

[superlopez] sent in this detailed article (mirrored here and here) which describes how to build a GPS and GLONASS (the Russian version of GPS) receiver. The resulting device is gigantic compared to ...

GPS receivers vary in what's included, some come with mounts and others come with virtually nothing. There's no mention of included accessories on the box itself, so you'll have to open it to find out ...

The Navigation Satellite Timing And Ranging Global Positioning System (NAVSTAR GPS) project, widely known as GPS, was initially conceived during the cold war to guide Inter-Continental Ballistic ...

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is one of the most powerful Android tablets on the market. It has a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor, a high quality 10 inch display, and an 8MP camera. But while ...

More and more industries are making use of the cheap-but-reliable technology offered by tablet computers and smartphones. Unlike complicated, bespoke electronic controllers, these techy little devices ...