Chapter 6. The Vehicle Pi
We will continue to use Bluetooth on our Pi in this chapter to track the location and data from our car. The following sections will be covered in this chapter:
- Finding out the location of the car
- Using your Android device as an access point
- Collecting the car data
- Sending data to the cloud
- Putting it all together
Finding out the car location
In this chapter, we will collect the engine data from our car, but things will get more exciting if we can gather some for of location data as well. For this purpose, we will connect a USB GPS receiver to the Pi and receive our location through this piece of equipment. We will use one of the cheapest receivers available in the market, as shown in the following image:
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