Saw this GPS-related message on the Yahoo group..

To: [email protected]
From: "stan" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:28:44 +0200
Subject: [toughbooks] Cheap GPS unit

Posted this in case its any use to anyone. I already got a few parts
from this
place and their service, packing etc. is good. It should be small
enough to
fit under the battery on a cf-28.

http://cgi.ebay.fr/High-Quality-GPS...65966969QQihZ014QQcategoryZ4661QQcmdZViewItem

If anyone has details for the pinout on the cf-28 internal serial port
could
they post it.

cheers

 

Modly has the pinouts I think.. Either that or he is still working on them. I think he is in the process of moving though so it will take him a while to get back in the game here.

That GPS looks a little bulky. I think (If you read through the GPS threads) that he found the perfect one.. .We just need to match it to a good antenna on the top of the LCD. He was working with some guy on the web to get a deal and a matched set I think.

He will be around here shortly and chime in I'll wager.

 

that gps is bulky, i doubt very much if it will fit in the same slot,
there are afew gps module around which look like there will fit........
but as toughbook said, modly is already doing it at the moment, so once he gets back with the latest news everyone can more on from there.........

 

I'm still out in Los Angeles right now (My brother just moved out here), and I'll be up in Portland, Oregon tomorrow. I'll be back home on Tuesday night though, where all my goodies and test mule motherboard is and getting back to making something happen.

I must say though, that my toughbook is doing great out here. We used it the whole way out as a map, and I've used it to get us around town a bit. Lucky about that one, because some **** stick broke into my brother's friend's place that we are staying at, and stole his MacBook while we were out. If we weren't using it as a map, I'd be sans-laptop as well.

But I'll be back on task soon, just checking in with you guys. I'd be on more, but I'm having an impossible time cracking the neighbour's wep key... Have to go all the way over here to the Library.

 

hey,
glad ur having a nice time even though the wanker stole the macbook,
still at least ur toughbook was safe,
if you caught him on time you could have smashed the toughbook on his head and showed him how tough it really his...............
what navigation software are you using????????
were yo getting the message/voice "signal lost"........
oh what wep crack are you using, i think bruteforce is one of the best to use for wep but even my self who loves all software havent gone through every single one yet.............

 

I'm using my USB globalsat receiver, and I'm using Microsoft Streets & Trips for the maps. Also, on my flight up to Portland, I held the receiver at the window and monitored my trip (Doing 564MPH at 32,000 feet), which was kinda neat.