{"id":2980,"date":"2019-03-25T03:57:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T03:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/?page_id=2980"},"modified":"2022-07-06T00:24:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T00:24:34","slug":"gps-mowers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/?page_id=2980","title":{"rendered":"GPS Mowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had came up with the idea mowing a neighbors lawn during my school years when I was 14ish many years ago to use GPS for mowing lawns and fields. I emailed john deer about the idea 20 years ago and they are currently using it in their farm equiptment.<\/p>\n<p>I recently re-emailed them to see if I qualify for any extra money or royaltys. got no response back so i&#8217;m just going to assume that the afterlife will hold something special for me. someone gad a funny suggestion I use an aircrane to take some tractors if they don&#8217;t pay. that or just keep sitting on the lost potential i could have used the money for i figure its well over 5 million dollars now. initially only wanted the 10000 dollars + royaltys they had offered to inventors in adverts on television or radio.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am currently waiting for centimeter accurate GPS to start my own ventures. The ublox m9 sounds promising, there are also some phones with the capability.<\/p>\n<p>more soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/netpipe\/qGPSMower\">https:\/\/github.com\/netpipe\/qGPSMower<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>update the Segway has a new GPS mower<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Segway Navimow Robotic Mower Intro\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bHQ3vWNQlGE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had came up with the idea mowing a neighbors lawn during my school years when I was 14ish many years ago to use GPS for mowing lawns and fields. I emailed john deer about the idea 20 years ago and they are currently using it in their farm equiptment. I recently re-emailed them to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2980","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2980\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/netpipe.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}