savant9

You can find a place for an earthcache almost anywhere, albeit it may not be very interesting. If you care to look through my profile, I have created 3 earthcaches that are all within a 10 minute drive from my house, in an otherwise seemingly uninteresting (geologically speaking) area. Yes they are a bit more work initially to create, but you dont have the maintenance concerns of a typical cache, plus its unlikely to be muggled I find the research and creation process of the earthcache to be very interesting, I just hope the visitors to the caches also feel the same way. The biggest stumbling block you usually run into is the permission aspect. If you are lucky enough to place an EC in an area that has a published policy, things can be much easier. My most recent EC is in a Metro Vancouver Park. MVP has recently published their geocaching policy, which states that permission is not required. Simply quoting that and providing the link to the reviewer was enough to get it published. I know that isn't relevant to you in FL, but if the local land manager has a posted policy, you can use that to your advantage. Good luck!

As does the official Groundspeak app.

Make a backup of all the files on the unit. Run Webupdater.

Here is some quick html if you just want to tack the banner on at the end of the listing. I am assuming hotlinking to the image is ok... <br /> <br /> <center><!-- Earthcache Banner --> <div><a href="http://www.earthcache.org"><img src="http://www.geosociety.org/earthcache/Images/banners/OfficialECBanner.jpg" /></a></div> <!-- End Earthcache Banner --></center>

Bingo! You're up.

This one may be tough as it is quite zoomed in. I thought the cloverleaf island makes it quite unique.

Its http://coord.info/GC1G6FF Flowerpot Island Earthcache. The fact that it was an earthcache made it gravy using a pocket query and the "map it" function. BTW there are 803 earthcaches in Canada.

C'mon DFX, don't leave us hanging....

Not familiar with that unit. Turn tracklog off and delete current track?

At least he found these 3 caches and got the smilies to prove it! Actually if you read the logs, those three hides have netted him 5 finds. The first one listed there has 3 finds on it by the CO.

My reply echos Red90's. Any problems the CO had were addressed with updates, its just too bad they discontinued it. I have both a Colorado 300 and an Oregon 450. Which do I use almost exclusively?..... The Colorado. For trail mapping the colorado gives me a cleaner track in my pocket than the Oregon does in my hand. If Garmin released a Colorado 500 with 3 axis compass,USB 2.0, and chirp support, I would buy it instantly.

This one should be easy too I hope, lots of clues in the image. I actually know someone who lives there.

Too easy http://coord.info/GCJPTQ Down the Canadian Gorge

I was thinking it was this one, but I dont recall if it was a Colorado or an Oregon now......

For the gps to see it, the .img file needs to be in the garmin folder, not in a subfolder.

How did you put the map on the SD card? Is it in .img format and in the /Garmin/ directory?

Take a look through this thread, a similar question was asked and answered there.

Assume you're talking to the OP. I've got JTAG tools, but have nothing in the way of an application for that manufacturer, much less that chip. Looks like it's time to do some searching to see who's distributing locally. I do have various JTAG tools and apps. I have a Ti Launchpad which may or may not be able to work with the MCU. I just have to find it, or order another, as they are dirt cheap.

1: The Colorado supports any sized SD up to 32GB, so naturally it supports SDHC (since anything over 4GB is SDHC) FYI the Colorado takes full sized SD cards not micro, but that really doesn't matter as most cards come with the adapter needed. Unless you are planning on adding a ton of Birdseye images, you really don't need a card bigger than 4GB. You should expect to pay less than $12 for a 4GB card from a computer retailer like NCIX, possibly double that if you buy from Futureshop/BestBuy/Source 2: The Colorado accepts most MCX connector antennas, best type would depend on the intended usage. 3: GSPCITY is also located in Calgary and has very good pricing.

Well, reset clears no data. It appears that pulling the RST pin low during data transfer just pauses the transfer, which then resumes quickly after going open on the RST. Un-exciting video below.

This is something I do plan to try, but I want to do a few other tests prior to this.

Here are the pinouts from left to right for the top picture. Almost all pins go directly to the MCU. 1: -3v 2: unknown appears to go to RST through a small component, via comes through under MCU 3: MCU pin 10 (TA1)General-purpose digital I/O pin/Timer_A, compare: Out1 output 4: MCU pin 36 (TMS)Test mode select. TMS is used as an input port for device programming and test. 5: MCU pin 37 (TCK)Test clock. TCK is the clock input port for device programming and test. 6: MCU pin 35 (TDI/TCLK)Test data input or test clock input. The device protection fuse is connected to TDI/TCLK. 7: +3v 8: MCU pin 34 (TDO/TDI)Test data output port. TDO/TDI data output or programming data input terminal 9: MCU pin 14 (CAOUT/TA0/CA4)General-purpose digital I/O pin/Comparator_A output/Timer_A, capture: CCI0B input/Comparator_A input 10: MCU pin 32 (TBOUTH/ACLK)General-purpose digital I/Opin/switch allPWMdigital outputs to high impedance -- Timer_B3:TB0 to TB2/ACLK output 11: MCU pin 38 (RST/NMI)Reset input, nonmaskable interrupt input port.

After seeing many unanswered questions, plus a bunch of my own, I wanted to find out a few things about the Garmin Chirp. As we already know the chirp gets locked to the first unit that programs it. Surely there is a debug/test connection somewhere on the device that could be used to override this, given the right programmer. But how to access it? Lets take a look. The chirp is quite well sealed, but there is a sticker under the battery area that is easily removed. Under this sticker we see 11 contacts. Bingo. Now the question is, what are these connected to? There is no real way to know without a more detailed understanding of the hardware inside. As this is a well sealed unit, you cannot open it without destruction of the housing. A few minutes of careful dremel work and it is open. For those that aren't aware of how small these things are I have included a Canadian quarter for size comparison. And for those who are unaware of the size of a Canadian quarter, its the same size as a US quarter. The battery side doesn't reveal too much to us. We see that it is made by Dynastream Innovations. This isn't really surprising as they are the company that created the ANT protocol, and are owned by Garmin. I find the copywrite 2007 interesting. I have speculated before that the chirp is basically the same hardware as the Garmin Footpod. It shares the same housing at any rate. More on this later. The only other things to note about this side are the battery contacts, large ground plane, many traces and vias, but otherwise unpopulated. The two unmasked vias are labeled TXD and RST. Well RST goes directly to Pin #11 and Pin #1 goes to the ground plane. 2 contacts identified, only 9 to go. Lets take a close look at the other side. This side is much more interesting. Too hard from that image to read the markings on the components but they are: The larger black square is the micro controller. It is a Texas Instruments MSP430F2350 datasheet here The smaller black square is the wireless transceiver. It is a Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01 datasheet here There are also a couple crystals and assorted capacitors and resistors, and the unmasked antenna. Note the unpopulated area in the center of the PCB? More speculation on my part, but I believe that this could be where the accelerometer is located if this were a FootPod. Thats all I have for now, I will continue to follow the traces and read the datasheets to determine the remainder of the pin connections. Later this week I will update with more findings.

Another option that you can use to grab multiple specific caches without going through the filters of a standard pocket query is..... just bookmark all the ones you want, then manage bookmarks-->create pocket query...