[Mini] MadTech? Using the husk of a CANBUS ODBC system to deliver high-tech data in a 1982 Mini

[funkynick]

Pffft... no way near bonkers enough for Scott!

Probably wouldn't work as described though as the Canbus master is likely
to be in the ECU. It would be possible with something like an Arduino or
Raspberry Pi though...

Nick

On Sat, 27 Feb 2016 3:37 pm Dr John C Bullas <john.bullas at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is what Scott Beavis would have wanted.....
>
> I am using an Android app and a bluetooth adaptor plugged into the ODBC
> adaptor of my Honda 1.25l runabout, it is relaying a vast quantity of
> information about the operational parameters of the car
>
> -
>
> If you had a scrap car that ran a suitable CANBUS ODBC compatible system,
> could you connect up the temperature and pressure sensors and not the
> engine and power the system up to deliver the data over the 'bus?????
>
> You would ignore the signal that can back from the dead side of the loom
> (not connected) ...... but use all the others
>
> Possible?
>
> Dr B
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