Around 3:00 PM, a bunch of us at work headed out as a group to take a break, and to pick up some smoothies. About nine of us walked down Michigan to Osaka for their wonderful fruit smoothies. While we were there, I fired up my Geocaching iPhone app and spotted a nearby cache. Walt had been talking with Jane…
Last weekend, I went geocaching for the first time. I’ve heard about this activity since maybe 2001 (when the only way to get a GPS device was to buy one for $100), and was always a bit intrigued. Here’s my layman’s summary of it: In the early 2000’s, GPS devices began to become more commonplace. As more and more folks…
I happened across a wonderful Arduino project by Mikal Hart called The Reverse Geocache Puzzle. It’s a locked, wooden box containing a smattering of electronics, and a GPS device. Unlike traditional geocaching, where participants use a GPS device to locate a hidden box, this particular project does things in reverse: the box will only open when taken ot a specific…