Turtlehead

How nice is this for hunting down those hotspots whilst on the move? TomTom being the wonderful people they are dump out all the gps data to /dev/gpsdata ( unsuprisingly ) in the standard gps NMEA format.

Just the very format most wi-fi stumblers use to log the position a hotspot was discovered. After a little hackery pokery I’ve manage to get it streaming over bluetooth to my ibook running macstumbler. Job done. View the image below for an example.

I’ve a few minor issues to work out but it’s functioning a treat.

Yey, I finally managed to get around the devpts issues and remotely login to the tomtom.

Next? how about gdb ttn…

I also grabbed a larger SD card so I can get more binaries on the TT, hopefully python if I can get it cross compiling correctly.

This is also all on a stock TT One, no kernel was recompiled in pursuit of this hack.

Check below for the shell feedback.

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I finally managed to get a working IP stack from the TomTom One to my PC working…

I ended up using rfcomm and running ppp over it. I would have preferred to use PAN but that didn’t look like a goer from the stock TomTom kernel.

Unfortunately devpts was also omitted from the kernel, so I’m going to have to get a little creative with the pseudo terms.

Here’s a quick teaser before I package it all up with a telnet daemon..

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Have just got myself a TomTom one.  Lovely bit of GPS / Linux integration and hacker friendly too…

At the moment I’m just seeing what it could be capable of and the first step towards that is seeing what dmesg dumps out..

I’ve already bust out the boot loader and startup scripts and have been annotating a dump of ttn navigation app to see what interesting stuff I can glean from that.

Next on the list is gaining a remote shell without writing my own custom firmware or boot loader.

Read on for the messages log…

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Hey all.. A quick update for you..
I’ve just spent 40 minutes or so clearing up the spam comments. Hope the site’s a little more navigable for you now..
I’ve also fixed the source code snapshot and the nightly build. The machine that deals with the nightly build and packaging ran low on disk space because of all the spam that it receives. Once again, that should be fixed too..
As for the WMA11b. I’m not really working on it any more as I now prefer the Airport Express.. But I’m going to keep everything here and will keep approving comments.
As for Linksys moving the GPL code, they’ve moved it to their FTP server, but I’ve also mirrored it here just incase they remove it entirely..