Eeepc Based GPS Navigation Using GPSDrive and Twitter Feed

While doing high pass filter work in the morning I have been spending my nights working on making my RS232 to USB converter board stable. While I bought my Eeepc to be used as a robot control unit, it just recently occurred to me that in the mean time I could use it for in car navigation. I have an OEM GPS unit that has been sitting in my closet from the Autonomous Two-Wheel GPS Driven Robot Project that can be used as well. It took me all week to debug the RS232 board and get it running reliably. I soldered the RS232 chip poorly and it had intermittent connection losses. It has now been stress tested and put in a simple project enclosure box along with the GPS unit. I fired up GPSDrive on the Eeepc and after a little command line magic now have in car navigation.

On another note, I have placed my Twitter feed in a module in the left column. Thanks to my cousin Brock of Michigan Livestock Data Services and Patrick O'Neill for his php class. Brock had to re-compile php for simpleXML support as well as change some directory permissions.