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Greetings to all,
I just want to say I'm a new member to this forum. I know nothing about programming. I hope this is the right place to start. I would like to get information on building my own GPS data logger. I would like it to run on 9 V battery if possible. I will also like it to run for more than two days. Can anyone please help me using Arduino boards and software. let me thank everyone now who help and reply. :-[

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I will also like it to run for more than two days

Is the 9V battery expected to power the GPS receiver too?

Have a look at the TinyGPS library.

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Welcome!

How little is "nothing"? Any programming in spreadsheets for example? Have you used a solder iron?

You can start by downloading the Arduino development enviroment and see if you can enter a program syntactically correct. (using the "verify" which compiles the program). Look LED flash http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Blink and at the button count program http://arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ButtonStateChange to start with. At least that part is free.

Of course, if you buy a kit (a modest investment, and you can stop there) and can get the above to work, then you are well on your way to succeed with the rest. A kit will include a few components so you learn to distinguish a LED from a resistor and so on, and the breadboard means you need not solder yet.

Then, if all is still well, the project continues:

  • Buying a GPS chip, getting the serial to talk to it
  • Buying a "large" memory chip (SD?) and store/retrieve data
    OR
  • Buy a wifiboard and send the data to somewhere else for logging.
    About 3 months of hobby work :slight_smile:
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I had the adafruit gps data logger shield. I also bought the gps unit from her too... I think it was like total 80 bucks? Might check it out :wink: