Arduino: Building exciting LED based projects and espionage devices

Chapter 8. Creating a GPS Tracker with Arduino

We are now going to build a very common tool that any secret agent should have: a GPS tracker. We'll use the Arduino platform again to build our own DIY GPS tracker. We will actually build two applications using the same hardware:

• The first one will be a location device that sends its position via SMS
• The other project will be a GPS tracker that you can actually locate live on a map

Let's dive in!

Hardware and software requirements

First let's see what the required components are for this project. As usual, we are going to use an Arduino Uno board as the central part of the project.

For the GPRS and GPS parts, we are going to use the Adafruit FONA 808 module again, which we already used in Module 3 Chapter ...