Build your own GPS data logger on the cheap

It's not the first DIY GPS data logger by a long shot, but Steve Cholewiak's new PIC16F88 Delorme Tripmate -- which Steve originally envisioned as a way to log his runs by carrying the unit in a backpack -- might very well be one of the cheapest. For under $20 you can snap up an old Delorme Tripmate off of eBay, and then set to work with Steve's detailed instructions. Sure, you'll need a few hax0r chops to begin with, and there's plenty of work to be done to get the Tripmate to spit out the right kind of data, and then store that data in an accessible way on some self-built circuits, but it's not like you had anything better to do this weekend, right?

[Via Hack-A-Day]

[Ben @ Jan 28th 2007 11:21AM]

Be nice if somebody could bring out a cheap one of these retail. Would be really cool. The tech used is blatantly old. Doesnt need a screen of any real type.

Useful gadgets! Yeah!

Or create a mobile phone app that does this for you.

[Chris @ Jan 28th 2007 12:04PM]

a phone app should be pretty damned easy if your phone has bluetooth and you pick up a BT gps. I'd be suprized if there isn't already software that does this for smartphones.

[Ben @ Jan 28th 2007 12:08PM]

Never thought about that. I do have a spare one at home.

Now..... where to get the software from :P

Anybody fancy writing some?

[krectr @ Jan 28th 2007 12:22PM]

Try SportsDo http://www.sportsdo.net

[Georg @ Jan 28th 2007 5:56PM]

Look at www.satconsystem.com The software trackomat will do all this including automatically E-mail transfer of the file to you account as *.klm to display your track on Google Earth

[Simon Lakeland @ Jan 29th 2007 4:33PM]

Then I can upload to my other trails ...

http://www.wikiwalki.com