[ale] [OT] Fwd: Open source coms to your Ford CAN bus

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

This looked cool so I decided to crosspost it.

Sincerely,

Ron



-------- Original Message --------
From: jebadiah.moulton at atlanta-robotics.com
Sent: Wed Feb 06 06:24:34 EST 2013
To: AHRC <botlanta at yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [AHRC - botlanta] Open source coms to your Ford CAN bus



Ford has announced that there CAN network is now open source, well 99%.

http://openxcplatform.com/

For those who don't know CAN (Controller Area Network) is how all the sensors and electronics are controlled and read in any vehicle.


I found out about it from http://opensourcehardwarejunkies.com/


This podcast is an interview with the developers of the project at Ford.  They have designed it so that Android and Arduino people can start writing apps to read the CAN network.  They said it is open in the sense that it is a read only development kit.  I wouldn't want to be writing anything to my brake system anyway.  I feel better about messing with it knowing I can't write anything.  Imagine your whole cluster of instruments on your android device or your history plotted out for any peripheral in your car.  This is great for racers.


Makes me like Ford more.


Here is a book I've been wanting to get on CAN.

http://www.elektor.com/products/books/electronics/en-controller-area-network-projects.1910639.lynkx


Regards,


Jebadiah Moulton

Atlanta Robotics LLC

www.atlanta-robotics.com

347-ROBO-ATL (762-6285) 



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