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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Find home detector - LilyPad Arduino

The Find home detector is a device to show me the way home by indicating the direction with a light. It uses a LilyPad, GPS, compass and some LEDs. Using the GPS to get a position and then calculate the direction to the location of my home. The compass is then used to get my heading so it is possible to indicate the direction I should travel.

First sketch of the Find home detector

Work in progress

Success!!

Hardware:

LilyPad Arduino

Compass Module with Tilt Compensation

LEDs to indicate direction

Conductive thread

Software librarys:

TinyGPS by Mikal Hart

NewSoftSerial by Mikal Hart

Wire for I2C communication with the compass

--Updated
Arduino sketch http://github.com/evilmachina/Find-home-detector

/Marcus

Creative Commons License

Finde home detector by Marcus Olsson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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