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  1. What do you get when you... by chaeron · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Build Your Own Weather Balloon
    ...combine a Radio Shack R/C Truck, onboard embedded java processor, GPS, wireless, XML, SOAP, Linux, J2EE, open source and a bunch of other stuff?

    The Mobile GPS Demonstration Platform project, which has even more geek coolosity than weather balloons. ;-)

  2. How about an open source solution instead? by chaeron · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Real Time Vehicle Tracking Made Easy

    My partner and I built a similar system using off the shelf parts (consumer GPS device, cell phone, embedded Java processor all mounted on a Radio Shack R/C truck) and open source software. We're currently working on adding Bluetooth to the platform for both cable replacement and remote configuration over short distances.

    Our solution used XML and Web Services from end to end, doing XML/SOAP parsing on the embedded processor to a back end J2EE system and also to a .NET server (the MS Terraserver for the aerial satellite photos we used for moving map display of position).

    Our J2EE server was a Linux box, running Tomcat, JBoss and lots of other open source stuff, including my own open source, Java, GPS Library code.

    All this in our spare time, with very little expense. We blew away a lot of people when we demo'ed it at JavaOne this past Spring (the big boys like Sun/IBM/BEA et were just talking about the interoperability promise of Web Services...while were were demoing it live...to an embedded processor no less).

    There's a white paper available that describes (in detail) what we did and the software/hardware that we used, for those that are interested.

    And being mounted on an R/C truck gave it serious geek coolosity factor too!

    So what's the big deal? ;-)

  3. How about an open source solution instead? by chaeron · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Real Time Vehicle Tracking Made Easy

    My partner and I built a similar system using off the shelf parts (consumer GPS device, cell phone, embedded Java processor all mounted on a Radio Shack R/C truck) and open source software. We're currently working on adding Bluetooth to the platform for both cable replacement and remote configuration over short distances.

    Our solution used XML and Web Services from end to end, doing XML/SOAP parsing on the embedded processor to a back end J2EE system and also to a .NET server (the MS Terraserver for the aerial satellite photos we used for moving map display of position).

    Our J2EE server was a Linux box, running Tomcat, JBoss and lots of other open source stuff, including my own open source, Java, GPS Library code.

    All this in our spare time, with very little expense. We blew away a lot of people when we demo'ed it at JavaOne this past Spring (the big boys like Sun/IBM/BEA et were just talking about the interoperability promise of Web Services...while were were demoing it live...to an embedded processor no less).

    There's a white paper available that describes (in detail) what we did and the software/hardware that we used, for those that are interested.

    And being mounted on an R/C truck gave it serious geek coolosity factor too!

    So what's the big deal? ;-)

  4. Try building your own GPS mapping software.... by chaeron · · Score: 5, Informative · on A Better Breed of GPS Software?

    ...if you can code in Java, my open source GPS library will make this a much easier process. Demo applications are included (for PC's and Palm's).

    All at Chaeron GPS Software

    Also check out the Mobile GPS Demonstration Platform (MGDP) project info (in .pdf format). I built some mapping/tracking display software (based on the GPS Library) that is used as part of this project.

    Enjoy!

  5. Try building your own GPS mapping software.... by chaeron · · Score: 5, Informative · on A Better Breed of GPS Software?

    ...if you can code in Java, my open source GPS library will make this a much easier process. Demo applications are included (for PC's and Palm's).

    All at Chaeron GPS Software

    Also check out the Mobile GPS Demonstration Platform (MGDP) project info (in .pdf format). I built some mapping/tracking display software (based on the GPS Library) that is used as part of this project.

    Enjoy!

  6. Good in-car GPS platform? by chaeron · · Score: 1 · on Midori Linux Powered FIC Aquapad

    I could see how the AquaPad might make a nice in-car GPS (Global Positioning System) platform. Laptops are unwieldy in cars, and the screen displays on most GPS units are too small.

    Hey...I'ld be glad to port my open source, java-based GPS access library and demo programs to the AquaPad (avail for d/l at GPS Java Library)....IF they send me a loaner AquaPad to port and test on! ;-)

    I find these announcements more interesting when taken in concert (ie. AquaPad, Sharp Zaurus, etc.) as an indication of where technology is evolving towards, rather than as the coming of the holy grail of new machines.