Hacking Gps - Brossura

Kingsley-Hughes, Kathie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0764584243 ISBN 13: 9780764584244

Casa editrice: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005

Riassunto

* 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

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Kathie Kingsley-Hughes has authored several technical/programming books and contributes regularly to a variety of forums on GPS and other high-tech outdoor devices. A zealous hiker, backpacker, and geocacher, she is rarely seen without her GPS (and usually a digital camera, spare batteries, sleeping bag, and similar survival gear!)

Dalla quarta di copertina:

You'll get lost in this book, but nowhere else

Your GPS is a really cool toy, but what if you could make it even cooler? What if you could build and hook up data cables, modify your iPAQ cradle to take a GPS connection, tweak the firmware, hook up to your PC without expensive software, use GPS data in a hundred creative ways, even solar-power your GPS? Suppose you could beef up your "first to find" quotient when geocaching, or use your GPS as a super-accurate clock. Well, you can. Read on?your adventure is just beginning!

Here's how to soup up your GPS

Covers both Garmin and Magellan models

1. Crack the secret codes
2. Build auxiliary battery packs
3. Navigate with your GPS
4. Make power and data cables
5. Sharpen your signal
6. Keep firmware update
7. Hack out a PC connectio
8. Create and load dat
9. Grab screenshots on the move
10. Set up an atomic clock
11. Customize GPS games
12. Discover paper-free geocaching

Su questa edizione

• Editore: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0764584243
• ISBN 13: 9780764584244
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 337