Neo Carputer (was: idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer)

[Andrew Turner]

On 1/26/07, Tim Newsom <cephdon at gmail.com> wrote:
> As a side note... In the US and probably other countries there is a
> standard for the interface to the car computer.  From that interface you
> can get the vehicle speed and diagnostic information about how the
> engine is running.  It might be interesting to have some kind of
> bluetooth car interface to obtain that information and display it for
> you while you are in your car.  Anyone ever heard of anything like
> that?
>
You're speaking of OBD or CAN.

There are some good interfaces out there, though the auto companies
try to protect their information. It would be neat to build a
plotter/scanner interface for measuring the car sensors on the Neo
using either bluetooth or serial/usb.

Bluetooth OBD scanner:
http://www.vitalengineering.co.uk/

Open-source OBD scanner & python software:
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~donour/cars/pyobd/

See my del.icio.us bookmarks (http://del.icio.us/nilspace/carputer)
for more links (and others on del.icio.us)

Andrew