May 12th, 2008
AVR Butterfly GPS System
The handy Butterfly GPS is a cost-effective system that presents location, date, and time data on its LCD. The system features an ATmega169 and a highly sensitive GPS receiver engine board based on the SiRF chipset. Its amazing what you can do with such a low cost development board.
AVR Butterfly GPS System: [Download Project] – [View Project PDF] – [Via]
May 14th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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October 7th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
hello
i am javar,from jordan,and i want to ask about the butterfly gps,its that how can i connect it to the computer,or pda,or….,the seial port u put there is from the avr to the gps engin,not to the computer,the picture isnt that obivous. the second thing is that: which one from what u have put is the code or the program i should use???,and how can i insert it to the device??????please tell me as soon as u could,i need it to my GRADUATE PROJECT,so please help if u could,thanks alot
regards
javar
October 7th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
javar, it’s gonna be hard to put together such a project if you don’t know stuff about microcontrollers and avr’s. First you should read some ebooks on programming the AVR.
good luck
October 7th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
hi again,
what am asking for is that:should i connect the avr to the pc through the serial port to programming it??? or i should first programming a PIC then connect it to the avr???
regards
javar
October 7th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
hi florin
for programmming this ATMEGA169 BUTTERFLY module, is it necessary to sepcific type of Kits or any one will work for programming it?
October 8th, 2008 at 9:13 am
javar, I don’t know the details for the project because I’m not the author of it, but i can tell you this: the AVR Butterfly dev kit is based on a ATmega169 MCU it has nothing PIC related on the board.
And the butterfly needs to be connected to the pc for programming than it works on its own.
October 8th, 2008 at 9:18 am
belal what kit are you referring to ? the butterfly can be programmed trough a simple serial cable, or trough a more advanced programmer like MKII, or with any other AVR programmer.
November 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Hey Florin,
I have a question about your program.
I have a GPS that works whith 4800bps. How can I change it in your program? And where do I have to do it.
By the way, great project.
thanks
November 27th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Mustang, i don’t know, I’m not the author of the project, you can download full documentation on the project from the links i provided in the article.