Description

An important tool that every climber and hiker on an expedition needs is a form of navigation. Nevertheless, handheld GPS systems can be relatively expensive therefore many resorts to using traditional maps. 

This GPS Navigator Kit can exactly to judge their position via latitude, longitude, and altitude. It can show you the number of satellites connecting to the Wio Terminal as well, and also other useful information such as your movement speed for your to maintain your cadence. It also displays a visual map to show you the satellite direction. With a little bit of tinkering, you can customise the interface for it to display only the information you need too!

This GPS Navigator Kit provides you with everything you need to create your own DIY GPS navigator, with a Wio Terminal paired up with a battery chassis, and a Grove GPS Sensor. Thanks to a guide by manpukukoji on Hatena Blog, you can easily copy the preinstalled code to the easy-to-use Arduino IDE interface and get your Wio Terminal to display your position’s latitude, longitude and altitude via the information from the Grove GPS Sensor.

Features

• Create your own DIY Arduino GPS with this kit to obtain the positional and satellite information of your location

• Read the latitude, longitude, altitude, and several other information displayed on the Wio Terminal Screen

• No WIFI or Bluetooth connection required

• Positioning error within 10 meters

• Multi-mode satellite positioning & navigation and support for more than 6 satellites at the same time

• Built-in 650mAh Rechargeable Lithium Polymer Battery

• Easy-to-use modular Grove ecosystem accelerates hardware prototyping process

Applications

• GPS for Hiking and Mountaineering Navigation

Community Projects:

• Wio terminal GPS - Hackster.io - Credits to manpukukoji on Hatena Blog

Learning Resources

• Get Started with Wio Terminal - Seeed Wiki 

• Grove - GPS (Air530) - Seeed Wiki (seeedstudio.com)

Documentation

• Wio Terminal User Manual

• Air 530 User Booklet