[OSM-talk] Cheap Recorder

[John Smith]

--- On Thu, 23/7/09, Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry to be off-topic, but has anyone looked in to building
> "the perfect OSM GPS logger" from parts? I wonder
> if the overall price would be less than $40 if we put
> together a GPS chipset, an SD card slot, and a simple
> microcontroller. No screen, just one mode: record every
> second to the SD card.

I thought about that before buying a pre-made one, and the parts + labour make it unfeasable and actually more expensive than a pre-made one. I contacted someone that made their own, there was about 40 hours work in it apparently.

http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/gps-sd-logger/