lincomatic
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I'm building a bare bones CAN Bus interface using Olimex's Header Board for AT90CAN128, which costs $29.95 at Sparkfun.
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/655
The goal is to do it with the Arduino IDE and my USBtinyISP programmer. I just got the board a few hours ago, and quickly got the Arduino Blink sketch up and running without a hitch:
Woohoo! That was easier than I expected!
I've posted detailed instructions on how to get this board working with Arduino on my blog:
AVR CAN Bus Project Kickoff http://blog.lincomatic.com/?p=398
There's still a lot to be done. The next step is to build an interface board with a CAN bus transceiver chip, so I can connect it up to the bus, since the header board contains little more than the MCU and a voltage regulator. Then, I need to learn more about CAN bus, and how to program it, both topics of which I have zero knowledge at the moment.
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/655
The goal is to do it with the Arduino IDE and my USBtinyISP programmer. I just got the board a few hours ago, and quickly got the Arduino Blink sketch up and running without a hitch:
Woohoo! That was easier than I expected!
I've posted detailed instructions on how to get this board working with Arduino on my blog:
AVR CAN Bus Project Kickoff http://blog.lincomatic.com/?p=398
There's still a lot to be done. The next step is to build an interface board with a CAN bus transceiver chip, so I can connect it up to the bus, since the header board contains little more than the MCU and a voltage regulator. Then, I need to learn more about CAN bus, and how to program it, both topics of which I have zero knowledge at the moment.