#70 GPS Ublox - First look! Possible RTC replacement?

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So where were we? Are yes, Longitude 40.689980, Latitude -74.045129 that's right. Ideal for car sat-navs, drones and model aircraft. But I might also want to use the GPS as an 'always correct' real time clock (RTC), can we do this? And is it worth doing so?

Luckily for us, there's a mature library called TinyGPS that abstracts all the data manipulation required when reading GPS signals and makes it really easy to just get to the information we want. So that' what we'll use here just to get started, although its successor (strangely enough called TinyGPS++) is the one I'll use next time I do anything on the GPS.

The program sketches used in this video are (almost) the two example sketches included in the original TinyGPS library. They're enough to prove the unit works and displays a load of information which, of course, you can just extract the bits you want.

The latest version of the original TinyGPS library:
https://github.com/mikalhart/TinyGPS/releases/tag/v13

The in-depth PDF for the Ublox GPS unit here:
https://github.com/CainZ/V.KEL-GPS/blob/master/VK2828U7G5LF%20Data%20Sheet%2020150902.pdf

Useful information from Mikal himself on how to use the original library:
http://arduiniana.org/libraries/TinyGPS/

The new TinyGPS++ library can be found here (but I don't use this in my video):
http://arduiniana.org/libraries/tinygpsplus/
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