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

[alan at alanlee.org]

Android will be in about 30% of all vehicles sold by auto OEMs by model year 17.
 OpenXC is just the beginning.

-Alan


On February 6, 2013 at 9:44 AM "Ron Frazier (ALE)"
<atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> This looked cool so I decided to crosspost it.
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> Sincerely,
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> Ron
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> -------- 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
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> Ford has announced that there CAN network is now open source, well 99%.
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> http://openxcplatform.com/
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> 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/
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>
> 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.
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>
> Makes me like Ford more.
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>
> Here is a book I've been wanting to get on CAN.
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> http://www.elektor.com/products/books/electronics/en-controller-area-network-projects.1910639.lynkx
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> Regards,
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> Jebadiah Moulton
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> Atlanta Robotics LLC
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