CAN Bus device

[therealnerd2]

Evening all,

For my electronics project I'm essentially making a USB-CAN adapter, and need to control something cool on the other end of the CAN.

Does anyone know of any CAN "peripherals", like a light cluster or anything, that I could pick up easily and connect to? I know Toyota have a lot of CAN stuff, anyone know where I can find any information on that stuff?

Cheers,
Sam

 

[Demon]

If you can't get hold of a module, there are a few things you could do..

1. newer cars tend to expose the CANBus via the ODB port, you could always do something with that, like a performance measurement bit of software.

2.Use a CAN equipped microcontroller and a relay to make an intelligent switch of your own (much simpler then it sounds)

3.Look around for some other CAN Devices (PM me if you are really stuck!).

On the vehicles I have to develop on, they are using LIN for control of the outer peripheral modules, I've not seen a normal CAN based module yet..