GPS cradle upgrade to bluetooth
posted Mar 18th 2009 12:19pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: gps hacks, handhelds hacks, transportation hacks
[emuboy] sent in this neat hack where he converted a GPS dock to bluetooth (google translated). He has an ipaq rz1710 and a Kirrio GPS cradle. Apparently there were annoying problems when inserting the ipaq into the cradle. He decided that he would much rather just connect via Bluetooth. After tearing apart the cradle, he found the documentation for the GPS chip online. He ordered a bluesmirf bluetooth modem and got to work. The end result is something that could be concealed in his car and just connected to when he gets close enough.
Hey kids! Wanna get an article on Hack-A-Day? Glue a BlueSmirf to your async serial gadget! Hurry, you could be the first to bluetoothify your cable STB’s tuner port!