{"id":252,"date":"2013-05-15T22:01:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=252"},"modified":"2013-05-21T18:03:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:03:13","slug":"ublox-neo-6-gps-module-usb-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris-stubbs.co.uk\/wp\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"uBlox NEO 6 GPS module USB connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NEO-6 is a neat and affordable little GPS positioning chip with a few features which go unused in my other GPS tracker boards. One of these features includes a direct USB connection to the chip, allowing it to be used with a computer.<\/p>\n

The circuit is quite simple, consisting of only the ublox chip, a few resistors, and a voltage regulator in order to power the 3.3v chip from the 5v USB line.<\/p>\n

My circuit is based around the diagram in the uBlox hardware integration manual<\/a> (page 12)<\/p>\n

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The PCB design is less than optimal, but this was really just an experiment into the use of USB.<\/p>\n

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Result! It works perfectly!<\/p>\n

I was not sure at first if it would show up as a USB serial port, or some other kind of input device. However it appears in device manager as a “uBlox 6 GPS Receiver (COM11)” making it nice and easy to program with.<\/p>\n

I can also confirm it works out of the box with the Raspberry Pi, accessible via PySerial, making it perfect for the SSDV Pi payload I am also working on (more to follow shortly).<\/p>\n

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