Your sailboat can sail, but you might want it to sail to a specific location. One of the coolest devices that you can connect to your robot is a GPS location device. It will allow your sailboat to know where it is, and then you can also know the bearing and distance to a new location.
In this chapter, you will be doing the following things:
Connecting the BeagleBone Black of your sailboat to a GPS device so that it can know where it is
Accessing the GPS programmatically so that you can use this position to determine the bearing and distance to a new location