Yesterday I bought the first cellphone of my life. I had been using the junker phone that my niece lost two years ago when she was in 7th grade. It resurfaced when she finally cleaned her closet. The phone was already on the plan and they had replaced it Tmobile was going to charge to […]
Simon writes in about his SV Chronometer – a GPS based, interactive master clock– This is a little blog post about a device I built to provide me with an accurate time reference I can use to synchronise all the timepieces in my house. It used a GPS module and a PIC 16F628 microcontroller with […]
Integrated GPS on a DELL Mini 9 via Engadget. Acabtp writes… So, I wanted to add a GPS receiver to my Mini 9, but I didn’t want to have to use a dongle or other external device. I figured that a netbook really ought to just have it built in, so that’s what I decided […]
Interesting “GPS-A-Sketch kit” @ The Hacktory… Wil writes – The idea behind the GPS-A-Sketch was to create an open shareable design that many users could use as the foundation for a modular, user-programmable, portable, GPS receiver. As the technology comes down in price (A Garmin eTrex of slightly lower specs can currently be had for […]
Incredibly interesting article about GPS spoofing and the theoretical “hijacking” of a truck via Schneier on Security. Jon Warner of Argonne National Laboratories set out to examine GPS security one Saturday afternoon. Jon is part of the Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT), a small group whose goal is to uncover flaws in our systems so that […]
Wow, this is really cool – Gina from Lifehacker has a Flickr bike that geotags photos and uploads them to a map on Flickr… Solar panels too!
I’m trying to figure out what’s up with this story… People are getting kidnapped – got that part, so they’re getting RFID chips implanted… which helps how? Snippet from the article… The chips cost $4,000 plus an annual fee of $2,200…. Xega, based in the central Mexican city of Quererato, designed global positioning systems to […]
