Beginning of GPS project :-)

Hi everyone :-)
My name is Jimmi and I'm a danish student at Aarhus Business Academy, where i study Electronic Technology.

I recently decided to expand my knowledge of the very easy-to-use Arduino microcontroller, and to do this, I decided to try out a GPS logger.
For documentation i decided to create this blog, not only for interested readers, but also very much for my own sake, since I learn more when you need to describe it, for others to read, and also because my memory is pretty bad (nothing serious though).
So for me to be able to quickly get back into my last work, I need to have some written documentation, or it would simply be hell to return to the project.

Arduino Uno

I already had a couple of Arduino-boards lying around, and for this specific project I will use the Arduino Uno.
I read up on the gps stuff, both on wikipedia and other sites, and it seemed manageable. Now I started looking into what kind of hardware was available for easy communication with the Arduino Uno. A good page for information on this is Sparkfun's Buyers Guide which helped me in choosing the GPS

EM-406 GPS Receiver

After reading the pros and cons of each of the receivers, I finally chose the EM406 as the GPS-receiver of my choice.

Other than that i decided to buy a GPS shield from Adafruit because it makes it easy to get started, and log the data from the GPS, onto an SD-card without too much trouble.
It might be good to mention that the Adafruit GPS Shield will be delivered unassembled, so buyers should also have access to soldering iron and some kind of mount for the PCB.

Adafruit GPS Shield - top

Adafruit GPS Shield - bottom