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content  Creating an APRS Tracker & Automated Camera with an
Android Phone  , 27 Apr 2011 CPOL Rate this: Please Sign up or
sign in to vote. Take pictures and broadcast GPS location on a
set schedule, useful in balloon payloads or as a standalone
tracker   This is a project for an Android phone that takes
pictures and broadcasts the phone GPS coordinates using the
amateur radio APRS infrastructure. I'm using it as a backup
tracker for a high altitude balloon project, but it can be used
for a couple things such as setting in one place and storing
time lapse photos, or keeping track of where the phone is
graphically on a map.  For example, I set it in my backyard
because I knew ducks were visiting periodically and was able to
get this picture:   And here is a picture of using to track the
phone's location as it moves around (ducks were not involved in
this one):    APRS is an amateur radio based technology for
communicating information using packet r