ajhutton/tinytracker

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TinyTracker

TinyTracker is an open source Arduino-based GPS tracking program. The intended use is the tracking of an amateur high altitude balloon.

At the moment it's not too "tiny" but the future focus will be on robustness and simplicity. The less complicated a program is, the less likely it is to crash. This is essential in embedded situations that operate 35km(!) above sea level with no human interaction.

Further resources

• http://ukhas.org.uk/
• #highaltitude on irc.freenode.net (I can be found here as schofieldau)
• email me at [email protected]

Attributions

• Mikal Hart for the original TinyGPS library (http://arduiniana.org/libraries/tinygps/)
• Darkside of Project Horus (http://projecthorus.org) for all of his advice, cheap hardware and additional code :P
• Robert Harrison's initial RTTY code (http://pegasushabproject.org.uk/wiki/doku.php/ideas:notes?s=rtty)
• Dad's sponsorship, electricity, internet, tools, advice, roof over my head, etc etc. Thanks Dad :)

tinytracker's Issues

Typo causing compile error

Line 31
const int dbgBaud = 9600;//DEBUG software serial baud rate

Type should be
const int debugBaud = 9600;//DEBUG software serial baud rate

Class variations in the main branch

Just kidding that means nothing. Enjoy.

WProgram.h missing

As of Arduino 1.0 WProgram.h has been renamed to Arduino.h
This needs amending in TinyGPS.H and TinyGPS.cpp