Good point, I'll have to look into that, then I can just do the RDS
project as an intro. Perhaps a lirc device for Linux :)

Thanks everyone, it's been a lot of help.
-Josh

On 5/10/07, Robert Rolf <Robert.Rolf@ualberta.ca> wrote:
>
> > 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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