hadi-alikhaniEhsan Aerabihossein-najafiyan
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Metal Detection

Find metals underground along with its location in GPS using your raspberry pi

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Metal Detection

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
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Breadboard (generic)
Breadboard (generic)
×1
Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout
Adafruit Ultimate GPS Breakout
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Schematics

matal circuit diagram

Code

find matal location

Python
python code tha read data form GPS to raspbery pi
import serial
import pynmea2

def parseGPS(str):
    if str.find('GGA') > 0:
        msg = pynmea2.parse(str)
        print "Timestamp: %s -- Lat: %s %s -- Lon: %s %s -- Altitude: %s %s" % (msg.timestamp,msg.lat,msg.lat_dir,msg.lon,msg.lon_dir,msg.altitude,msg.altitude_units)


		
serialPort = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyS0", 9600, timeout=1.0)

while True:
    str = serialPort.readline()
    parseGPS(str)

Credits

hadi-alikhani
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Ehsan Aerabi
18 projects • 60 followers
Researcher on IoT and Embedded Systems
hossein-najafiyan
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