GPS Shield With SD Card Slot for Arduino V2.0 B

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Introduction

Arduino GPS shield is a GPS module breadout board designed for Global Positioning System receiver with SD interface. It is easy to use for recording the position data into SD card.


GPS-V2B-01.jpg

Features

  • With SD interface
  • Active antenna design with high receive sensitivity, compatible normal antenna
  • Extremely fast time to first fix at low signal level
  • UART interface
  • Operation temperature: -40℃ ~ +85℃


Application Ideas

Cautions

Schematic

Specification

Pin definition and Rating

Mechanic Dimensions

Usage

Hardware Installation

Install GPS SD Shield V2-B onto Arduino Uno, and use jumpers to short TX and MRX, RX and MTX. In this way, the MCU talks to the GPS module.

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Programming

Test GPS module

<syntaxhighlight lang="c">

void setup() {

   Serial.begin(9600);       

} void loop() {

 if (Serial.available() > 0) 
  { 
       Serial.print(char(Serial.read()));   
  }

}

</syntaxhighlight>

Compile and execute:


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Test SD card

It can use the built-in SD card example code in Arduino IDE.


HW-GPS-V2B-03.jpg


We can observe the date being written into SD card through serial port.


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FAQ

Support

If you have questions or other better design ideas, you can go to our forum to discuss or creat a ticket for your issue at linksprite support.

Resources

How to buy

See Also

Other related products and resources.

Licensing

This documentation is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0 Source code and libraries are licensed under GPL/LGPL, see source code files for details.