Thursday last week wasn't shaping up to be that spectacular day. I was tired, frustrated and just wanted to sleep the entire evening when I got home from work. I checked the mail and found a package that redeemed the evening - my freeday order had arrived.

Earlier in January the electronics retailer Sparkfun had an event named freeday in which they gave away $100,000 dollars of electronics. The first 1000 people to order got a $100 discount on their order and all they had to pay was shipping.

On freeday I managed to order an Arduino, a GPS receiver and a board to interface the Arduino and GPS reciever together. Needless to say, after checking the mail I immediately ran downstairs to my workbench and started work on connecting everything together.

My goal right now is to make a simple electronic compass and navigator as a build up to the slightly more ambitious GPS enabled hat project. This weekend I finished the compass and I am currently working on the navigator.

Anyone up for a city-wide game of GPS hide and go seek?