A cheap GPS for your Raspberry PI
Old i-gotu (i-gotU) gt-200e/gt-120 gps receiver work with the #raspberry pi just fine! breathing a new life in this 5 years old device. You’ll find a lot on #eBay cheap for sale
i-gotU is a #GPS Logger and Receiver 2-in-1 device including user-friendly Travel Blog Software. i-gotU records trip routes, Auto-adds photo GPS locations, creates an animated trip journal that brings back live trip memory by plotting the route and playing back the photos / YouTube videos with the exact location on 3D maps, making it more fun and easier to share trip or outdoor sport activities with friends through @trip travel-blog hosting site, Internet Explorer MHTML or Google KMZ file format or popular web album Picasa & Flickr.
| Dimension | 44.5 x 28.5 x 13 mm |
| Weight | 20g |
| GPS | SiRF Star IV Low Power chipset Hot Start: < 1 sec Warm Start: < 35sec Cold Start: < 35sec WASS & EGNOS support |
| GPS Antenna | Built-in GPS patch antenna |
| Interface | USB 1.1 |
| Water Resistant | Yes |
| Battery | Built-in 230mAh Lithium-ion battery |
| Build-in memory | 16Mb |
| Waypoints | 65,000 |
| LED indicator | Blue & Red |
I used it directly plugged into a RPi usb port 🙂
No special driver software was needed using Raspbian. It shows up under /dev/ as /dev/ttyUSB0 or ttyUSB1, which you will need to determine before you start up gpsd.
- gpsd is sort of a generic GPS receiver server that then makes the output from one or more #GPS devices available in a standard format to both local and remote GPS applications. Doc Here
- foxtrotgps is a simple gps/mapping application that makes use of GPSD data.
