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Code for the bergprobe RTK dGPS trackers based on espruino pico and some dGPS units (Piksi Multi and Ublox M8P). Kirk Martinez, Josh Curry, Philip Basford, Graeme Bragg, 2017, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK See www.glacsweb.org

Reminders fresh Ubuntu installs need these to test code locally:

sudo apt install python-pip

pip install pyserial

to prevent modemmanager connecting and sending AT etc: sudo systemctl disable ModemManager.service

Pico boards are programmed with: http://micropython.org/download#other during dev time this was version 1.8.7 - we have some running the latest 1.9. on last few

My normal way is git clone https://github.com/micropython/micropython.git micropython/tools/pydfu.py -u micropythondownload.dfu

other way untested for us: sudo ./pydfu.py -u 'espruino-pico-etc etc etc.dfu'

base.py is main.py for Piksi Multi base station

base-ublox.py is main.py for Ublox base station

simplemain.py was 2017 main.py for Piksi Multi rover or ublox base2018.py is the version for 2018 with temp sensor.

sat.py has code for the Iridium Rockblock

gps.py is generic code to get data from GPS units