Tag Archives: garmin

Garmin vs Arduino GPS dance-off

Posted on 2011/02/11 by scruss

So I built a GPS logger. It’s an Arduino Uno with the SparkFun microSD and GPS shields. No display, massively unwieldy, but it does spit out a track point every second and logs it fairly reliably to microSD. It works … Continue reading →

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fixing garmin file dates

Posted on 2011/02/08 by scruss

While the Garmin GPSMap 60csx is a lovely unit, it saves its tracks on the card with a date just slightly younger than I am. The following Unix one-liner will correct the file dates to the actual dates the data … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X killed my Garmin!

Posted on 2010/09/15 by scruss

My GPSMAP 60CSx had started to become unreliable: crashing after startup, randomly locking up in mid route, and just generally being an aggravating piece of kit. I was really close to replacing it. The problem seemed to appear after I’d … Continue reading →

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probably wouldn’t recommend the Blackberry Tour as a GPS logger

Posted on 2010/08/21 by scruss

I walked a local footpath carrying my (mostly) trusty Garmin GPSMap 60Csx, and a Blackberry Tour running bbTracker. Both had had a good satellite fix for about 10 minutes beforehand, and both were logging trackpoints every second. The smooth turquoise … Continue reading →

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