Links
-
Recent Posts
- Inkjet Printing On The Cheap With A Continuous Ink System
- Swapping the ROMs in Mini Arcade Cabinets
- David Williams Is “FPGA-Curious”
- Chandrayaan-2 Found by Citizen Scientist; Reminds Us of Pluto Discovery
- Hackaday Podcast 045: Raspberry Pi Bug, Rapidly Aging Vodka, Raining on the Cloud, and This Wasn’t a Supercon Episode
Recent Comments
Archives
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
Meta
Category Archives: dead reckoning
How Etak Paved the Way to Personal Navigation
Our recent “Retrotechtacular” feature on an early 1970s dead-reckoning car navigation system stirred a memory of another pre-GPS solution for the question that had vexed the motoring public on road trips into unfamiliar areas for decades: “Where the heck are we?” In an age when the tattered remains of long-outdated paper roadmaps were often the best navigational aid a driver had, the dream of an in-dash scrolling map seemed like something Q would build for James Bond to destroy.
And yet, in the mid-1980s, just such a device was designed and made available to the public. Dubbed Etak, the system …read more
Posted in compass, dead reckoning, Engineering, Etak, Featured, fluxgate, geocoding, gps, Hackaday Columns, navigation, NAVSTAR, Original Art, retrocomputing, topology
|
Leave a comment