I am a new owner of the Arduino Duemilanove (my first control board).
I have a Navilock USB GPS receiver and was wondering if I could somehow hook it up to the Arduino USB. One problem I can think of is that the GPS is powered via USB and I am not sure if the Arduino can provide this voltage via it's USB connector.
Another option could be to connect a female USB to the GPS with open wires on one end (I dont want to screw up the GPS USB plug) and hook it up to the serial inout on the Arduino, but I am not sure if an USB signal can be read on an input pin.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Realistically, not a hope. Power aside, both are USB slave devices and need a master USB device to work (your computer). The usb on the Arduino is only low capability being a glorified serial interface.
Ok thanks, thats clear, I read sth about that (master/slave USB).
So how would I go about connecting the wires (from the GPS USB) to the Arduino? Would I need to go through a USB to Serial converter?
So how would I go about connecting the wires (from the GPS USB) to the Arduino?
You can't, as stated above. It's not on. Unless you can hack into your GPS and get at the signals before they go to the USB chip. Cut them and then you might be able to feed the signals into the serial input of the arduino. But only if the GPS is hackable in this way.
