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Build Your Own GPS – Caching for Nerds

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Techno Geeks – Bre Pettis and Joe Garland have posted a fun video/article on just how easy it is to build your own GPS using a few simple components.  Now I somehow think there was a bit more done than what we see in the brief video, but it is fun to watch and if you have the winter geocaching blues it might be a good project.  As they indicate schematics and code are [...]

Treasure Hunting with the iPhone 3G

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As many of you know I am an RSS and News Feed junkie…  As such you may see me make some posts here that are references to works that I have read that I believe might be of interest to you.   This post is one of those.

While surfing through the Mashable website I came across this article on using the iPhone for your geocaching.    I like the single device idea.   IE… one [...]

Geocaching – A Beginner’s Guide

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Author: Heather Bayer – posted by BillNPegz

Geocaching crazy – join the hunt!

I’m a self-confessed technophobe. I have never sent a text message or taken a photo with a cell phone; played a video game or watched a movie on a personal DVD player. In fact, I never quite mastered working the video machine [...]

Geocaching, Technology and the Outdoors!

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I’ve had my GPS unit for quite awhile.  In fact I even knew about geocaching but never really embarked on the adventure until this past summer.   I must say after about 30 cache finds so far I am hooked!

Geocaching, for those of you that are curious is an international “treasure hunt” of sorts.  Individuals will hide a cache that may contain small trinkets for trading, and post the coordinates to this cache online for others [...]

First Cache of the New Year…

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When the weather outside looks like this it is pretty hard to not only hide a cache but the search becomes quite challenging as well.

I was quite happy when I received my email of new caches from geocaching.com that someone had placed a cache in our area AND it was relatively close AND it was winter accessible.  I just had to jump on the opportunity to go searching.  It could be my New Year’s first.

We [...]