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Welcome to the blog of Dr. Ken Tindell, CTO of Canis Automotive Labs. This blog is focused on the work Canis is doing on CAN bus and CAN security, but also covers the design of embedded software and hardware for automotive systems and the Yes We Can project at Canis that develops hardware, software and tools for CAN bus: the CANHack toolkit for injecting faults into the CAN protocol, CANPico and CANHack hardware boards for the Raspberry Pi Pico, and the can2 logic analyzer CAN protocol decoder.

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Building PulseView for the Raspberry Pi

PulseView is a pretty neat logic analyzer, especially when paired with our can2 CAN protocol decoder and a low-cost logic analyzer. But what would be even better would be to...

Ken
28 Jun 2021

Video intro to CANPico

Now that the CANPico board is available for order online from SK Pang we thought it would be good to make a short video on getting started with it.

Ken
24 May 2021

CANPico now available!

The CANPico board is at last available, and ready for order online from SK Pang. It’s been a long time coming, longer than we expected thanks to some major problems...

Ken
18 May 2021

New documentation for MicroPython CAN

We have recently been developing an API for CAN under MicroPython for the new CANPico board from Canis Automotive Labs. There are some really neat features of the CAN support...

Ken
10 Mar 2021

Raspberry Pi Pico Priority Inversion

We have written before about priority inversion, how it happened on Mars, and how it happens on CAN bus if the CAN controller and drivers aren’t designed carefully. But we...

Ken
05 Mar 2021

Sneak preview of three upcoming Canis CAN boards

Canis Automotive Labs has three CAN boards in the pipeline and with luck we should be announcing availability in a few weeks, so we’ve produced a sneak preview of those...

Ken
16 Feb 2021