Hello :geek:
I have some general questions regarding the GP - 20U7 GPS Receiver. I am thinking of using this in my IoT sensor but I want to know a few things first.
First off - I am a complete beginner in programming and when looking on the page for this I did not see any user guides or quick start guides. Does one exist? I can basically see what to power this at and that it comms over UART.
I am also using the Sparkfun Pro nRF52840 Mini - Bluetooth Development Board. I am hoping to hook this GPS to the UART comms of the BLE module. Any problems with this?
If this is okay - I am mainly concerned with how to add code to my nRF Mini to get data from the GPS module over UART. I am using the arduino platform to code my nRF over USB. Any help out there with how to do this? Again - I am a super beginner with coding.
Thanks for any help!!! 
We do not provide coding support :-(…however, yes, what you have described will work. Start by going through the hookup guide for the nRF mini https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/sp … 1615791300
There isn’t a hookup guide for that particular GPS module…that product is a ‘bare-bones’ version of a GPS module; the expectation is that the customer would wire/solder the module into their setup, running the tx from the module to the microcontroller of their choice…as-is, it will stream constant position updates over a simple serial UART, which would be received by another piece of hardware (in this case the nRF mini)…https://www.arduino.cc/reference/en/lib … s-library/ says to use the IDE to add the library and go form there.
If you would like something that is already integrated into a PCB format (to sit atop an arduino or similar), something like this might help https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13750 - All of our SparkFun originals come with detailed hookup guides https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/gp … 1615791300 , so that getting started is easy!
Hope this helps!
Thank you Russell! Yes I was thinking I would solder the wires onto my nRF mini and just use the two like that. Thanks for sending that arduino link as well I will look into that.
Thanks again! Hopefully I can get it working haha.