> On 5/10/07, Joshua Shriver <jshriver@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>Well I have two relatively small *hope so at least* projects in mind.
>>I bought a decent GPS locator that connects to a serial port.  Though
>>I dont have a laptop or portable computer to use it with. Thought if I
>>could use a PIC chip to read off of the serial i/o line, provide power
>>to the power pin, the PIC could parse the data, then have some kind of
>>storage device attached (SD?) for storing the data.

Sony already makes such a device, with the GPS built in. Uses SD card.
Has USB interface.
About $100 US. What's your time worth?

R

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