Your Electronics Open Source

In this time of highly interconnected communications, knowing just where you are is of the utmost importance. Imagine you're in the middle of a busy city needing to find a store, or driving a car at 80mph down a highway full of traffic and struggling to read a map for the exit you need to take... uff, not only uncool but ,frankly, very dangerous!

Much better to have a dependable Global Positioning Device (GPS) around, hopefully featuring a very feminine voice, to provide you with directions to the place you want to go. Enter the world of GPS navigation!

So clearly, it's a good idea to have a GPS in your backpocket... now, if there is a hole in there finding the GPS is what's going to be a tricky enterprise.

Clearly you can go with the 800 pound gorilla in GPS navigation that you'll find in your corner electronics store. All the kinks will be iron out, all the bugs fixed and, of course, a nice price tag will be associated with it. Or..

Or you can use your smarts and produce a home brew GPS using this simple tutorial to create a basic orientation device:

Now the problem with GPS systems are that are either too costly or too cumbersone or ... maybe a little too emotional?

Anyway, i hope that after today, the next time you use a GPS to find your way around, you realize the amount of infrastructure that goes into making the little things work.

Cheers!