Basement Engineered Home Brewing Stirplate

Although my outdated, neglected, who-gives-a-shit blog rarely gets posted to anymore, I have adopted a soft spot in occasionally 'giving back' and sharing to a focused [...]

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Calculating NMEA sentence checksums with Python

Another feature I wanted to add to my NTP/GPS project I'm doing with my Raspberry Pi is to validate the NMEA sentences I'm reading in by checksum'ing the NMEA sentence [...]

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Parsing NMEA sentences from GPS with Python + PySerial

I've had a need to parse some NMEA output on my Raspberry Pi for a project I'm working on. In essence, it is pretty trivial to read from a serial port and parse ASCII [...]

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Motorola Oncore UT+ Interface and PPS Breakout Board + Schematics

I've been a long dabbler of all things 'network time' related for 5+ years now and do maintain a fair number of stratum-1 time sources for myself (two Motorola Oncore [...]

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