Hacking GPS

• This is the “user manual” that didn’t come with any of the 30 million GPS receivers currently in use, showing readers how to modify, tweak, and hack their GPS to take it to new levels!
• Crazy-cool modifications include exploiting secret keycodes, revealing hidden features, building power cords and cables, hacking the battery and antenna, protecting a GPS from impact and falls, making a screen protector, and solar-powering a GPS
• Potential power users will take the function and performance of their GPS to a whole new level by hacking into the firmware and hacking into a PC connection with a GPS
• Fear not! Any potentially dangerous mod (to the device) is clearly labeled, with precautions listed that should be taken
• Game time! Readers can check out GPS games, check into hacking geocaching, and even use a GPS as a metal detector

Table of Contents

Part I: Hardware Hacks
Chapter 1: GPS Secrets
Chapter 2: Building GPS Data Cables and Power Cords
Chapter 3: Power Hacks
Chapter 4: Antenna Hacks
Chapter 5: Protecting Your GPS

Part II: Software Hacks
Chapter 6: Hacking the Firmware
Chapter 7: Making Connections

Part III: Data Hacking
Chapter 8: GPS Data
Chapter 9: Examining the Data
Chapter 10: More Data Tricks

Part IV: Playtime
Chapter 11: Hacking Geocaching
Chapter 12: GPS Games

Appendix A: GPS Primer
Appendix B:Websites/Internet Resources