Well - Re uses -
1 - We use airplanes and terrestrial scanning units. I'd like to mount the terrestrial units on this bot for late season scanning (NDVI) relates to yield and protein of my wheat.
2 - The weed whacker has occurred to us for weeds that have grown above crop.
3 - Also a wick-wiper for same use.
4 - Gopher (Richardson ground squirrel) control - ??
5 - Large lawn/yard mowing - maybe a fundraiser for our team. Roomba with a lawn mower and an E STOP!!
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6 - Skateboard park fun.
7 - Outside hill climb fun.
8 - Your suggestions...
So those are the thoughts.
I already have about a dozen GPS units from 1 hz handheld units to 5 and maybe this spring, 50 hz units. All have serial out, and I deal with that all the time with CE units as well as Windoze based laptops.
Maybe I'm missing something, but, I am not seeing how a CE machine might interface with the IFI controller to do the controlling I need.
What I need and want is the bridge from this GPS technology to the IFI controllers that the kids are familiar with. I just don't have the capability, and now the time (inversely proportional to capability) to dig deep enough to make this done. I'm sure that there are libraries out there, I just need some help finding them and identifying that they are what I'm looking for. As an example, might this be a parser I could get shoved into EASY C?? -
http://www.dmh2000.com/nmea/nmeap.shtml
and TUT for above -
http://www.dmh2000.com/nmea/tutorial.html
If you are interested in the devices that I use on my big tractors and sprayers etc - check out the EZSteer - I have a couple of them, plus Trimble AG 132, Garmin ?16? and more -
http://www.agleader.com/products.php?Product=guidance
Thanks, C