Uni GPS project

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Hello,

I am hoping that someone can help me.

I have a final year project in college to do, and I am looking to design and build a personal tracking system with a few extra features.

I was using a PIC initially, with Flowcode, but I am getting nowhere, so now, I am going to use what I wanted to use in the first place, the Arduino. But can someone please advise me on a good, and reasonably priced GPS module (as I am buying this myself).

I have been looking about but an just not sure what will work well with the Arduino, as I am still new to it ...I have only been playing around with a few basic programs.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice you can give me.

Seán

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Sean,

I have a complete interactive GPS tracker project you can use as a starting point. It records GPS coordinates etc on the onboard 32KB EEPROM of the Phi-1 shield and uploads to PC when connected via USB. The GPS module is a popular model with well-documented projects and codes. The entire project is less than $100 if you already have an arduino, so it should be reasonable.

Here is a link:

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Hello!

That's fantastic, thank you very much!

This is pretty much excatly what I am looking to do in the GPS part of my project, this this will be a great help in getting me on the road.

Thanks

Seán

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And as for parts...

A bit of looking around on those sites that show the various parts and pieces can usually be inspirational.

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Also dipmicro.com I'm sure tomorrow my package from them will arrive at my door step as usual. Their parts have best price.