GPS

Archival Note: This post preserves an article I originally wrote for MakeUseOf way back in August 2014 while I was at The University of Liverpool doing my PhD. The original published version is at MakeUseOf: GPS III: Where Are We? And Where Are We Going?. They probably still own everything but this is from my original ‘manuscript’. Fifteen years ago, the first GPS-enabled cellphone went on the market. It flopped, but the form factor it pioneered, combining near-military grade communications equipment with a consumer device has stayed with us. ...

Ok, got the 900, sorry this blog is very very late Pros: AMAZINGLY small, you wont believe how small it is until you use one The keyboard is just managable the Webcam is amazing quality when it works More responsive than i imagined The Extra 16GB SSD really helps Wonderfully fast bootups (If you never plug it in to any accessories (other than charger) set the Boot Booster enabled under the BIOS, trims a second or two) ...

Afternoon folks, I’m supposed to be studying but dont have the heart to, so I’m documenting a recent project from Uni. The remit was to be able to parse RS232 data coming in from a GPS unit and reformat it for a LCD display. I dont have the part numbers handy but I was programming on a 18F series PIC that supported C. Most of the ancillary code is more platform dependant, such as working with the PIC interrupts etc, so for the purposes of this code snippit, assumme that a NMEA sentence (I used RMC and some RMB, but never really finished that bit) stored as a character buffer, and a structure, as defined, to store relevent data in. ...