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Hackaday Prize Entry: Modular Stepper Control
Stepper motors are a great solution for accurate motion control. You’ll see them on many 3D printer designs since they can precisely move each axis. Steppers find uses in many robotics projects since...
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Hackaday Prize Entry: ESP32 Monster and Getting Started Quickly
Prolific hacker [kodera2t] is working on his own “ESP32 monster board” dev board for the still-newish ESP32 WiFi module. His board has everything: Ethernet, OLED, LiPo, and even CAN-bus. But all that...
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Heads-Up Display Turns Car Into Fighter Jet
While most of us will never set foot in a fighter jet, some of us can still try to get as close as possible. One of the most eye-catching features of a fighter jet (at least from the pilot’s...
View ArticleTurn a Car Into a Game Controller
The CAN bus has become a staple of automotive engineering since it was introduced in the late ’80s, but in parallel with the spread of electronic devices almost every single piece of equipment inside a...
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Reverse Engineered Media Controller From Car Is Best Friends With Android
The CAN bus is a rich vein to mine for a hacker: allowing the electronic elements of most current vehicles to be re-purposed and controlled with ease. [MikrocontrollerProjekte] has reverse engineered a...
View ArticleAdaptive Infotainment Plays Tunes To Match Your Dangerous Driving
Part of the fun of watching action movies is imagining yourself as the main character, always going on exciting adventures and, of course, being accompanied by the perfect soundtrack to score the...
View ArticleTurn Your Car Into A Simulator
Video games, while entertaining to be sure, are a great way to experience things that could not easily be recreated in real life. Shooting aliens on a giant ring in space is an obvious example, but...
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Developing An Automatic Tool For CAN Bus Hacking
In the old days, a physical button or switch on the dashboard of your car would have been wired to whatever device it was controlling. There was potentially a relay in the mix, but still, it wasn’t too...
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This Week in Security: vxWorks, Expensive Email Fraud, and What’s in Your...
This has been an interesting week. First off, security researchers at Armis discovered a set of serious vulnerabilities in the vxWorks Real Time Operating System (RTOS). Released under a name that...
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When Your Car Breaks Down, Simply Hack It Into A Simulator
When [Nishanth]’s Subaru BRZ came to a sudden halt, he was saddened by the wait to get a new engine installed. Fortunately, he was able to cheer himself up by hacking it into a car simulator in the...
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A Low-Power Solution To Streamlining Sensor Data For IoT
For home use IoT systems, getting sensor data from tons of physical locations centralized to a single Raspberry Pi can be a difficult job, especially when considering the power consumption that’s...
View ArticleDashboard Dongle Teardown Reveals Hardware Needed to Bust Miles
Progress and the proliferation of computers in automotive applications have almost made the shade tree mechanic a relic of the past. Few people brave the engine compartment of any car made after 1999...
View ArticleInside a CAN Bus Mileage Manipulator
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...
View ArticleCustom Packet Sniffer Is A Great Way To Learn CAN
Whilst swapping out the stereo in his car for a more modern Android based solution, [Aaron] noticed that it only utilised a single CAN differential pair to communicate with the car as opposed to a...
View ArticleAdding Luxury Charging Features to an Entry-Level EV
The Nissan Leaf is the best-selling electric car of all time so far, thanks largely to it being one of the first mass produced all-electric EVs. While getting into the market early was great for...
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Classic Triumph Gets A Modern Digital Dash
Analog gauges gave way to all manner of fancy electroluminescent and LED gauges in the ’80s, but the trend didn’t last long. It’s only in the last decade or so that LCD digital gauges have really...
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Small Open Source Vehicle Hacking Platform
[Florian] and his engineering team at Munich-based bmc::labs has developed a clever set of prototyping boards for vehicle hacking and rapid product development, collectively called the bmc::board or...
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Using CanoPy to Visualize the CAN Bus
As cars have become more sophisticated electronically, understanding the CAN bus that forms the backbone of automotive digital systems has become more and more important for hacking cars. Inexpensive...
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CAN bus Wireless Hacking / Dev Board
[Voltlog] has been hacking away at the CAN bus console of his VW Golf for quite some time now. Presumably, for his projects, the available CAN bus interface boards are lacking in some ways, either...
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Custom Instrument Cluster for Aging Car
All of the technological improvements to vehicles over the past few decades have led to cars and trucks that would seem borderline magical to anyone driving something like a Ford Pinto in the 1970s....
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