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Arduino Pixy cam and GPS problem.

Pixy Hardware
#1

Hello everyone, I have a problem combining the pixy and gps code together… have any of you tried using pixy and gps together for a project before? I need help since the pixy seems to be preventing the gps from sending data to arduino. it basically makes the serial monitor stuck with no new data coming in, and most of the time the pixy also prints gibberish codes and random letters with the raw gps data in it as well…

What do you guys think is the problem with it before seeing the actual code? any hypothesis?

#2

Hi Ganoel,

I’m guessing that the GPS shield you are using also used the same communication pins/ports that Pixy uses, which is why you are getting the weird behavior. I’d suggest you check which pins are used for both Pixy and the GPS shield and see if any of them are the same. Maybe you can use a different comm. pin on Pixy that avoids interfering with the GPS. Hope this helps!

Scott