In my drawer I found a GPS reciever for my cellular, I have never used it because the GPS software in my phone is crap. But when I found it, I realized that it might work to connect it via bluetooth to my laptop so I could have a stratum 1 NTP server at home. But after a few hours I ended up with having a very nice graphical GPS system with maps. A stratum 1 NTP server at home is cool, but in my opinion this is better 😀
I installed the following on my Ubuntu system:
- gpsd
- gpsdrive
I followed this instructions to make Ubuntu communicate with the GPS reciever.
And I took my laptop and my GPS gizmo for a ride with the following result:
May 26th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Its amazing how you always find some gadget lying around! 😛 I think this is a cool implementation…
May 26th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
My wife asks me why I keep all this electronic garbage 🙂