{"id":1019,"date":"2011-08-08T11:10:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2012-01-18T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T22:59:44","slug":"gps-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalnigel.com\/wordpress\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"GPS Tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, in my last post I talked about my new PCB Etching stuff. Well, I’m putting it to use relatively frequently these days, and last weekend I made a little widget to gather some data for me.<\/p>\n

I thought to myself, as I was stuck in traffic one day. Since I’m commuting back and forth, to and from work each day on some of the local freeways around here, why don’t I make a GPS Tracker that I’ll stick in my car and will take position samples every so often. I can then plot these on a map, and associate speeds with the difference in time to the difference in position. If I do this for long enough, over the days \/ weeks \/ months \/ etc. I can get data on traffic over my commute route and correlate that to other phenomena going on, like weather, events, or etc.<\/p>\n

So I did.<\/p>\n