Walkthrough: Connecting a Bluetooth GPS to the Raspberry Pi Zero W

The Raspberry Pi Zero W has integrated Bluetooth that I haven&tried to use yet. Raspbian Jessie 8 has all the requisite Bluetooth drivers already installed, so setting up to use Bluetooth is quite straightforward. In this walkthrough, I connect my ZW to a GlobalSat BT-338 Bluetooth GPS, and extract the time from the NMEA messages using a simple Python script. To do the same hands-on you&need to install a couple of things: screen and PySerial like so: apt-get install screen pip install pyserial