Yesterday Groundspeak announced that they will approve chirp-enabled geocaches on geocaching.com, putting to rest a several day long chirp thread on the geocaching forums. While Groundspeak prefers that cache hiders provide an alternate means of finding the cache, a chirp cache can be listed as a mystery cache with a new “wireless beacon attribute” if [...]
Updated 11/4/10: I’ve added a chirp FAQ page on the Garmin Oregon wiki if you are looking for more detailed help with your chrip. After getting my hands on a Garmin chirp this morning I’ve been able to play with the tiny transmitter to see exactly how it works. The chirp is a simple wireless [...]
Updated 8:00am: Garmin product page for chirp is available. That was quick. After last night’s flurry around the Garmin chirp, Garmin has posted an announcement for the new wireless geocaching beacon on their blog this morning. A few items to note: Price of the chirp is noted as $22.99 Size: 1.3″ x 0.9″ x 0.3″ [...]
Garmin seems to be on the verge of announcing a tiny programmable wireless beacon that can transmit information to compatible Garmin GPS receivers. The so called “chirp” seems to be aimed at geocache designers who are looking for something a little different with their next cache placement. To get an idea of how chirp might [...]
If you own one of the newer Garmin GPS’s with a “spine” mount Garmin released official software via Webupdater that fixes several minor issues and promises to address the long standing inaccuracy with the Trip Odometer data field. For those not familiar with the issue, most owners consistently report that the Trip Odometer records less [...]
After checking out the guts of my Garmin GPSMAP 78sc yesterday I’ve had a chance to play with Garmin’s newest handheld marine GPS. For the most part the GPSMAP 78 is a Dakota that floats and employs real buttons instead of a touch screen. The size and layout are very similar to its predecessor, the [...]
I know, cheesy title, but I thought I’d try to put to rest some speculation around what is actually inside Garmin’s new GPSMAP 78 and probably the GPSMAP 62 which was just officially announced this morning. I was hoping that Garmin might have decided to use the SiRFAtlasIV system-on-chip in this new line of GPS’s [...]
