INITIAL TESTS OF THE GPS UNIT
After acquiring the Falcom FSA03 GPS Unit (now available at Earthshine Design) I decided to do some basic testing to ensure the units work and communicate over serial. After reading the datasheets and getting some advice from Terry (Project Horus) I soldered some wires onto a unit for testing purposes to hook it up to a 3.3v supply from a bench PSU and an FTDI cable to communicate with the u-Center software provided by uBlox.
The GPS Module soldered (badly - my soldering iron tip was knackered and didn't get hot enough) up to some wires for testing on a breadboard with an FTDI Cable:
The Earthshine1 Research 7 Development Centre (OK so it's my kitchen table). Ignore the RoboRaptor, you didn't see it:
The u-Center software showing valid NMEA data from the GPS Module: