Part 2. Connecting the Fona

The Fona is a neat little board from Adafruit that allows internet access through a GPRS cellular data connection. It also comes with a built in GPS! Basically what this means is that you can give pretty much any device that can make a serial connection an internet connection as reliable as your smartphone - which sounds like a pretty good deal to me.

When I called it a "neat little board" above, I meant little. Here's a picture of it next to the Pi Zero:

Getting it wired up and working is pretty much a cinch. I've adapted Adafruit's instructions on tethering a Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 to the Fona to work on the Pi Zero.

Let's get connected.

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