Registration is now open for The Institute of Navigation (ION) Eighth Annual Robotic Lawn Mower Competition to be held June 2-4, 2011, at Siebenthaler’s Beaver Valley Garden Center near Dayton, Ohio.
"The purpose of the competition is for universities and colleges to design and operate a robotic unmanned lawnmower using the art and science of navigation to rapidly and accurately mow a field of grass.
If you thought that the MediaTek MT3329 GPS was small -- (the DIYdrones store claims it to be 16mm x 16mm but I would have guessed 12mm myself) -- Round Solutions, based in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, is offering the ORG4472 GPS module, based on the SiRF IV chipset is only 7mm x 7mm). But you do have to stick an antenna on it.
"The module has an integrated interface for accelerometers, gyrometers, or other sensors to make dead reckoning easy, the company said.
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