For a hacker, the best way to understand how a system works is to break it down into its constituent parts, do a hell of a lot of research, and then rebuild it from scratch. Andrew Holme, a British ...

[superlopez] sent in this detailed article (mirrored here and here) which describes how to build a GPS and GLONASS (the Russian version of GPS) receiver. The resulting device is gigantic compared to ...

GPS can be a bit complex of a technology – you have to receive a signal below the noise floor, do quite a bit of math that relies on the theory of relativity, and, adding insult to injury, you also ...