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Geocaching Log Feed Added
Since I am limited to Blogger for publishing our “My Finds” PQ, I’ve used a WordPress widget to add a link to the latest posts here. You can find them on the Geocaching page. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blogs, Geocaching, WaFiTz!
Blog Your Geocaching Found Logs with Blogger
You may or may not be aware that Google have recently released a command line tool called Google CL which allows limited updating of some of it’s primary services from the command line – including Blogger. I have been working on a script and looking for a utility to parse the “My Finds” pocket query for uploading to a blog for a while now so on hearing this news I set to work to see if I could create an automated script. You can see the results on my old blogger account, which I have now renamed _TeamFitz_ and repurposed for publishing our Geocaching adventures. It’s a little bit clunky and could be improved, but the script is now complete and ready for ‘beta’. I’m publishing it here and releasing it under … Read entire article »
Filed under: Blogs, Geocaching, Linux, WaFiTz!
Curious Problem with Cork City Locale Geocaching Pocket Query
If you’re a premium member with Groundspeak’s geocaching.com then you will be aware of the ability to create pocket queries. These are really useful for throwing up to 1000 waypoints onto your GPSr for a days, or even a holidays caching. As some of you know we were in Ireland recently (the reason for lack of posts) and I decided to take advantage of Stena Ferries free satellite wifi on the boat. I set a PQ for Cork and waited for it to build. When the query was ready I saved as usual to my shared Dropbox folder and then attached my Garmin 60CSx but despite loading fine onto my CacheBerry – the PQ just wouldn’y upload to the Garmin. Puzzled, I tried an older PQ and verified that my script was working, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, Technik, Troubleshooting
Solve my Mystery Geocache
I’m headed to Cork, Ireland for a week and a half, so there’ll be little or no posts, check twitter @wafitz for updates. Currently I’m sitting on a car ferry from Fishguard using wifi@sea – via satellite, pretty cool. In the meantime, we just published a new mystery/puzzle geocache. To be solved at home then searched for at night following a trail of firetacks. See if you can solve it here: geocacing.com listing Mystery journal … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, WaFiTz!
Just GPSBabel
A while ago I posted my frustrations with running GSAK on Linux, and how I’d found a way of getting the function to send to my Garmin 60CSx to work. I thought I owed an update to anyone who read that to say I gave up on GSAK and now just use GPSBabel from the command line. Here’s the script I run: #!/bin/bash GPXZIP=$1 NAME=`echo $GPXZIP | cut -f1 -d.` unzip $GPXZIP GPXFILE=`ls *.gpx` for FILE in `echo $GPXFILE`; do gpsbabel -i gpx -f $FILE -o garmin -F usb:0 done I called the script ‘sendtogarmin.sh’. I saved it in the directory where I save all my pocket queries are stored as zip files. When it comes to load them, I just hook up the Garmin and then run: sudo ./sendtogarmin.sh pquery.zip Works for me, but I never bothered … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, Troubleshooting
A Geocaching FTF Lego Short (stop motion)
I’m currently in the process of editing the film for my geocaching stop motion animation with Playmobil figures. I’m hoping it’s going to take me less than 24 hours in total – and I’m aiming for around 1m30s mark. In the meantime, check out this awesome stop motion FTF short: … Read entire article »
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Fixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 2)
In Part 1 I explained how my Garmin 60CSx booted up with a completely blank screen and doing a firmware update didn’t work – despite the update being successful. Now I’m going to tell you what I did do. Frustrated I googled a bit more and happened upon this forum post where someone had taken their 60CSx apart and posted photos. The topic here was a broken receiver but the images were useful to me nonetheless. I decided to pop open my own device and have a look to see if anything came loose. I didn’t take pictures, though I wish I did now, however I can provide detailed steps I took below on taking the 60CSx apart. Disclaimer – I am not a Garmin technician, and doing this may void your warranty. You may simply … Read entire article »
Filed under: Troubleshooting
Fixing A Bricked Garmin GPSmap 60CSx (Part 1)
Last week I had a minor panic attack and bout of depression. After coming back from one of the 10 Year Lost and Found Geocaching events late at night, I dropped my Garmin GPSmap 60CSx on the floor, picked it up and thought nothing of it. The reason being is that the 60CSx is a rugged piece of equipment which can withstand a lot of shock and even full immersion – this one in particular in an unrelated incident has survived being tossed 20-30 feet in a field – hardly a dent on it. However the next evening I was preparing to load a new pocket query onto the device and powered it up the screen was completely blank! Nothing was loading, I tried banging it, replacing batteries powering up with … Read entire article »
Filed under: Troubleshooting
Religious Crap in Geocaches
Groundspeak forums are aflame once again… this time over a month old thread that has recently been resurrected from the grave. And, then I found it. Slightly larger than my signature business card was this paper religious tract type of a thing. Shock! Horror! Oh the travesty! So what do you think of religious tracts left in geocaches? Personally I dislike the idea – anything paper or even card left in a cache ends up becoming damp and soggy – affecting the overall presentation of swag – not to mention does anyone other than the dilligent CITO’er really get much out of trading for them? I’d like to know what generous Christian traded for their 1 penny tract… is this a case of “Riches I have not, but I do have this handy geocaching-friendly salvation-simplifying … Read entire article »
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Cross Dressing Lego Storm-Trooper Geocaching Travel Bug
About 6 months ago I had an idea for a travel bug – a lego figure that requires cachers to trade just one item until it no longer looked like it’s former self. This idea morphed into a deserter Clone Storm Trooper who wanted to become an individual… and so this Travel Bug was born: TB2THBF Here’s how he started out: The mission was simple: Change just one item from this Lego imperial clone trooper, take a photo and move him on. His first change was body armour, provided by geocacher Boat456. 6 months later he’s only managed to travel 133 miles but he’s already gone through some major self discovery, courtesy of High Beeches and Wear Pilgrims… Where next? Who knows…? Thanks to all the cachers who have helped move the Storm Trooper on so far! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching
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