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Laptop with GPS

Saturday, February 19th, 2005 at 10:26 pm

Today I’ve been wiring up my laptop to my GPS, a Garmin eTrex.

I made the connector in the same way as the one I saw on this site from an old discount card. Using the technical specification from Garmin for the wiring I hooked this up to a 9-pin serial port connector.

Thank you Garmin for publishing that useful information. Open specifications are good.

To track where I am, I installed gpsdrive using apt-get. It detected my GPS plugged into /dev/ttyS0 straight away.

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