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Boards ordered and better GPS module

A project log for Motorcycle lean angle video overlay

A project to add lean angle overlay to your motorcycle videos

simonSimon 11/06/2016 at 21:580 Comments

I've put in the order for the first version of the PCB so that's a few weeks away. Also after some research I've found a GPS module at a decent price that has the time pulse pin broken out. My previous hacked together prototype needed a bodge wire soldered to the GPS module to get the time pulse, so I'm very happy about this. Here's a link: http://www.gearbest.com/transmitters-receivers-module/pp_229580.html?wid=21 I'd still like to try making my own breakout for the NEO6M GPS but I don't imagine it will be easy with all the RF voodoo required.

I haven't decided how I want to open source the board design just yet. It still has a lot of room for improvement, I'd estimate that the components currently included to allow flashing of the esp8266 and an AT328 micro to drive the logging to SD card could all be removed with the use of an extra board for flashing and logging done by the esp8266 directly through SPI. I guess room for improvement isn't a bad thing though. With regards to opensourcing the design do people just make the gerber files available or the design files themselves?

I've also updated the description of the project a little, hopefully people understand what I'm trying to do!

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