http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/ Engadget Comments for Homemade GPS puzzle box puts a modern spin on treasure hunts http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 7:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 21st 2009 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 7:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/2. ???
3. Profit!!]]>Oct 20th 2009 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/After a few days, its mass will reached a level high enough to begin to have a significant affect on earths gravitational pull. Water will drain from the opposite side of the planet, flooding the other. Buildings will start to collapse, suddenly being pulled in a slight angle. The immediate area of the device will collapse upon itself, falling towards it, only fueling the process with more mass.

Finally, all of earths mass will have been devoured, and Earth will end its days as a black hole, impossible to see and with all traces of earthly life erased for eternity.]]>Oct 20th 2009 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/
A rather dark end, but at least it's not gray and gooey.]]>Oct 20th 2009 8:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/
But is Hackaday still a 'sister site' as described in the below link?

http://www.engadget.com/2005/03/14/the-300gb-ipod-and-you/]]>Oct 20th 2009 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/
And lol@Tanooki for your lack of thinking in posting something about telling someone else to think!]]>Oct 20th 2009 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/
GPS uses trilateration to locate points on Earth, not triangulation. You could make a gizmo to triangulate your position using GPS positioning to locate the end-points of the baseline and then have it do all the math but that's like building a 12 foot ladder to reach an 8 foot high shelf—you only needed the first 8 feet to get to the cookie jar so why bother with 4 more feet?]]>Oct 20th 2009 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Actually, only 2 would be necessary in theory. If the distances are accurate, the circles you draw should overlap at only a single point. If they overlapped twice, it would mean one or both of the distances were further than they actually were.]]>Oct 20th 2009 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/
Alex Alegado - yea it's not triangulation, I stand corrected.]]>Oct 21st 2009 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/
This hurts my brain more than anything else.]]>Oct 21st 2009 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 9:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/
First, you record your current position, and mark it on a map. Then you press the button and get a distance. Then, use a compass, and with the distant set as the radius, and your current position as the center, you draw a circle. Then, you move some random distance away from the first point, and again record your location. Press the button again, and with a compass, with your 2nd location as the center, scribe another circle with the new distance as the radius. At this point, you will have two circles on your map, intersecting at two points. You could go to the location of either of those intersections, and one of the two will be your final location, where the box would open. Or you could just move some distance away, and press the button a third time, scribe the 3rd circle, and where all 3 cricles intersect is the place on the map which will open the box.]]>Oct 20th 2009 9:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/I suppose some people need assistance in understanding some of the simplest things though,
Carry on then.]]>Oct 20th 2009 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 10:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 21st 2009 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/20/homemade-gps-puzzle-box-puts-a-modern-spin-on-treasure-hunts/Oct 20th 2009 11:39PM