As you can see here, it takes the combined efforts of 3 small, low-cost Linux running computers for me to tell time 🙂 The Pi in the blue Pi shell has an ultimate GPS soldered onto a custom stripboard PCB that exports its time via NTP. The only things here I didn’t purchase from Adafruit are the Ethernet cables and the Linksys router, turned wireless bridge that connects it all to my network.
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Here are the instructions/code I used for the two different projects I’ve combined here:
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2012/11/16/raspberry-flavored-time-a-ntp-server-on-your-pi-tethered-to-a-gps-unit-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/
http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/02/22/raspberry-pi-lcd-menu-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/