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Are there any plans for a GPS board like Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi?
(03-22-2016, 12:11 PM)stephen fleming Wrote: [ -> ]Are there any plans for a GPS board like Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT for the Raspberry Pi?

GPS using UART communication, such Adafriut's Ultimate GPS HAT can runs on Pine A64 with proper UART driver.
Hello,
why not use a Bluetooth GPS Unit like Polaris 65 Chanel I65E .
Under Remix OS it runs fine with no Problems.
It used one Nokia Akku BL-5c for several hours.
So you don´t Need any IO Pins on the Pine64.
Since most modern GPS receivers just have a UART interface with either NMEA or some binary protocol, a lot of different devices will work. If you need PPS support for time synchronization I saw a thread somewhere here on the forum, can't remember if that works out-of-the-box yet... I use a http://www.drotek.com/shop/en/home/613-u...ss-xl.html usually...