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Overview
* This is the "user manual" that didn't come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!* Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS
* Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
* Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
* Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector
Synopsis
Like other electronic devices, Global Positioning System units embed secret information known as "easter eggs." Assuming that readers already have a GPS unit and know how to use it, a veteran GPS user/computer field author explains how to use these hidden goodies to modify built-in software, make custom cables, use alternative power sources, connect to other devices, play the sport of geocaching, and other power uses. She includes photos of hardware, a GPS primer, online resources, and a glossary. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Details
Published
March 1, 2005
Publisher
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Pages
358
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780764584244