G'day guys Chris from Core Electronics again. Today I want to show you the PyTrack from PyCom it's a backpack that you can put on your microcontrollers, that includes a GPS that covers every kind of GPS you want. As well as a three-axis accelerometer. So, have a look on the bench with me and I'll take you for a tour around the board.

Alright, so on the left here we have the expansion board 2.0 which I've already done videos on and on the right here we have the PyTrack. Quite obviously you can see the large package here that is the GPS receiver and well I found out that GPS is an acronym that describes the American GPS satellite system, there are other systems as well including Galileo and GLONASS and there's also a Japanese one as well, but these systems are all supported. So, this basically supports three different global GPS systems. The other main feature of the board is in the centre here is the three-axis accelerometer. Otherwise, the two boards are virtually the same you see there's not a second row of female pin headers like the expansion board 2.0 provides. This one is just designed to stay on the back of your microcontroller and provide the GPS and/or accelerometers features. Again, you've got a micro SD card, built-in antenna, so there you go it's a great little board and it's mostly for adding GPS and/or accelerometers to your project. If you come with me now to the PC, I'll just show you what we've got documented there.

So, under the heading PyCom PyTrack overview, which you can get to easily by putting PyCom in the search box, will come down and have a look at the list of features here. Unfortunately, this diagram has a little error, at the bottom of the diagram it says the accelerometer, is this little component here, which I'm assuming is a resistor it's this one in the centre here, that I've already pointed out. As with the PySense theirs, 10-pin points here, that you could solder on pin headers it doesn't give you access to all the pins but only a few essential ones.

So, running down the page I've documented a comparison here that shows you the expansion board 2.0 versus PySense versus PyTrack, so you can see the differences and yeah, the major difference here is the GPS and the accelerometer which is available on the PyTrack. As you see here in note 1 at the bottom GNSS system supported, GPS which is American, Glomus which is Russian, Galileo which is European and the QZSS, is a Japan-only Japanese system.

Alright, so down below we have two pinouts and you can see fully documented they’re what that double row 10 pin socket is there if you want to solder on a pin header and I don't think there's anything more  I need to cover there.

So, there you go there's the PyTrack from PyCom, in our next video we'll do a getting started guide, where we'll write code and access both the GPS and the accelerometer.

So, if you're looking for the documentation, the link is below the video.

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