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The Oak by Digistump => Oak Projects => Topic started by: kcbudd on August 02, 2016, 03:16:10 pm

Title: TOWL - Telemetry over Opportunistic WiFi Links
Post by: kcbudd on August 02, 2016, 03:16:10 pm

Blog post with more details forthcoming, but in the mean time:

I used a Digistump Oak and quadcopter GPS module to build a goofy little thing to report GPS coordinates opportunistically over open / captive-portal WiFi hotspots using DNS recursion.

code: https://github.com/phreakmonkey/towl (https://github.com/phreakmonkey/towl)

here's an example of the data output from my car on the way to work, plotted on OpenStreetMap:
(http://cdn.phreakmonkey.com/towl-track.png)

Think of it as:  $25 LoJack with no monthly subscription.  ;)

Title: Re: TOWL - Telemetry over Opportunistic WiFi Links
Post by: emardee on August 02, 2016, 10:48:02 pm

Looks very interesting. Will be fun looking at this in due course to work out out it works!

Thanks for posting.

Title: Re: TOWL - Telemetry over Opportunistic WiFi Links
Post by: driffster on August 03, 2016, 04:59:01 pm

Was wondering what to do with my GPS module.. :) This looks like a fun project.