NavSpark : A Small, Powerful, 32bit Arduino Compatible Development Board With Free GPS, GPS/GLONASS, or GPS/Beidou Receiver

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The price ranges from $15 and up, not including shipping. What about that is free? The word "free" appears on the video but nowhere else on the page.

It's free and worth every penny.

JJS

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John Speth

Perhaps them meant libre rather than gratis?

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Grant Edwards

Thanks for the link - just pre-ordered a -GL set, spec looks OK, at this price hard to beat.

Regards, Arie de Muynck

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Arie de Muynck

I believe they meant to say you get a 32-bit Arduino-compatible board for $

19, and at "no extra charge" (eg. free, once you've bought the board) it ha s a GPS built into it to give you position and accurate time. Unlike any ot her Arduino-type board at that price that I'm aware of. The Arduino-compati ble part of the codebase is also free as in libre (open source) although th e GPS library is closed-source.
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bealevideo

If anyone is interested in the GPS functions, I summarized the info spread out through the Indiegogo comments into an unofficial NavSpark FAQ here:

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If you just want the CPU by itself for general use and don't care about GPS, they are now offering 21 boards for $220 with just the CPU, regulator etc, no GPS so that would be $10.50 per board.

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bealevideo

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