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A gadget that makes car hacking easier
- kw71 12y agoYou can already buy a CAN gateway for less than $60. $15 is a more appropriate sale price.
- PinguTS 12y agoThat is what I do not understand: why does everybody who is going to do "car hacking" thinks he needs to build his own device. There are cheap CAN adapters available. There are lots of dev boards from those different chip makers available. There are Arduino shields and BeagleBone capes available. I just got some cheap Chinese Bluetooth adapters for myself.
- bobdvb 12y agoSome of the comments on the article claim that this is different because it allows write access. But some quick research tells me that some vehicles do allow write via CAN/ODB-II and others don't. It hasn't been explained why this guys effort is any different.
- bobdvb 12y agohttp://developer.mbed.org/cookbook/OBDII-Can-Bus http://developer.mbed.org/cookbook/OBDII-Can-Bus
- kw71 12y agoThere are multiple application protocols. The OBD2 spec includes PHYs and an application protocol. One of the PHYs is CAN-bus, and since the CARB application does not do everything (or much of anything) useful to a manufacturer, they implement additional applications. Some of these manufacturer specific applications require authentication to perform some operations such as flash write or certain eeprom writes.