If there's one technology that has changed everything we know about how a car works, it's the advent of CAN-Bus. A Controller Area Network is a series of microcontrollers (modules) that all talk to ...

I'm converting a classic Mini to electric and as a way to save a few thousand bucks, I'm hoping to build a box that can adapt the Nissan Leaf parts to a "normal" system of 12v switches. Specifically ...

Here’s one node on the new home automation system on which [Black Rynius] is working. So far he’s testing out the system with just two nodes, but plans to build more as the project progresses. He’s ...

In the days of carburetors and leaf spring suspensions, odometer fraud was pretty simple to do just by disconnecting the cable or even winding the odometer backwards. With the OBD standard and the ...

An engineer asked me a question about how to implement a CAN-bus circuit with the Texas Instruments SN65HVD251 transceiver. He had already studied data sheets and application notes. His key question ...

Industrial applications require high transmission rates, more bandwidth and ways to integrate motion control with other applications. CAN open language enables plug ...

The mystery of adding LED lights to a modern BMW with CAN Bus (Controller Area Network) electrical system is easy to resolve. The “smart” CAN Bus smells a rat when you pop in an LED brake light or ...

After I wrote about the CAN bus in a previous blog entry, I decided to get a few CAN-bus transceivers and run several basic experiments. I obtained samples of the SN65HVD251 transceiver from Texas ...