How to add GPS to Your Raspberry Pi Pico | A Simple GPS Project

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

🔗 *The full guide* : _https://core-electronics.com.au/guides/raspberry-pi-pico/how-to-add-gps-to-a-raspberry-pi-pico/_

In this video, we will be learning how to add a GPS receiver module to a Raspberry Pi Pico. We will be taking a look at how GPS works, and how to wire up and code your project to get coordinates, as a final step, we will be making a short and sweet GPS project - a small device that tracks a target location and uses our current location to display the distance and direction to that target, allowing you to navigate there from anywhere on the surface of the earth.

🔧🔨🧰 Hardware featured in this guide:

*NEO-6M GPS Module:*
_https://core-electronics.com.au/catalog/product/view/sku/CE05949_
*Picos:*
_https://core-electronics.com.au/raspberry-pi/pico.html#category_2118_

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0:00 What we are doing
0:20 How GPS works
1:57 What you will need
2:15 Wiring up the GPS module
3:00 Reading the raw UART output
6:55 Using a GPS library
9:25 Project: DIY navigation device

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