RSSDIY cell phone tracking
Our pals at Popular Science have a write up of a low cost way to do your own cell phone tracking - "...Jen, is tracking me. Using a $100 kit from Mologogo (with a $6-a-month data plan), I've turned a prepaid cellphone into a GPS tracking device. Every few minutes, the phone transmits my location within 100 meters to mologogo.com, which posts it to a Google map that Jen can access from any computer. She can view my most recent spot or my past 100 recorded locations as little pushpins stamped with date and time." - Link.
Related:
DIY GPS tracking with Mologogo - review - Link.
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Apr 17, 2006 06:44 AM
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| Posted by: jcantara on April 17, 2006 at 10:00 AM |
I'm curious as to where the "DIY" is... I mean, I suppose you have to actually buy the phone yourself, and go to a website, and sign up for a thing; but neither of those are usually considered "DIY". Oh well, it's Lunchtime, I'm going to go DIY a hot-pocket in the microwave.-Jesse
| Posted by: UHF on April 17, 2006 at 12:29 PM |
This project talks about GPS, does the phone have GPS built in? It seems that it's just getting the location of the registered phone mast and sending that, and not very accurate.
| Posted by: zieak on April 18, 2006 at 7:20 PM |
I'd love to be able to do this with my treo650 with a gps module installed. The accuracy would be far superior. It could be as easy as an application sending a text message from the phone to a website that plots the lat and lon points on a google map.
| Posted by: Groepler on April 23, 2006 at 7:15 PM |
Attn. all GSM phone users:
There is a Zurich based company called "Friend-Zone" which allows you to use your REGULAR GSM-based phone to geo-locate another friend. No need to use that pesky NexTEL service, no sirree!
Hopefully someone like Mologogo, or someone else will partner with 'em, or something, spare the rest of us who want this service from buying a silly NexTEL phone!
Just a thought
| Posted by: SantaDoesIt on December 21, 2006 at 11:48 PM |
Cool. This is great, I heard this site offers free instructions and downloads to cell phone tracking.
www.pukeorama.com
Hope this helps you out.
| Posted by: Amila Sampath on January 17, 2008 at 2:30 AM |
I'm an electronic craftmen in srilanka.(a new commer to the field)But I still couldn' have a multi meter.Im working in a small butic. I kindly request this that if you have, piece send me a multimeter.If you hav that is a help to my hall future,my addres is no;212,Fincowaththa, Welivariya,Srilanka
| Posted by: Tim Arnet on August 13, 2008 at 12:54 PM |
There is a free cell phone tracking service at www.baeeo.com that does not require a GPS enabled phone. It work great on my Pantech Duo.
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