This PiCAN board provideCAN-Bus capability for the Raspberry Pi. It uses the Microchip MCP2515 CAN controller with MCP2551 CAN transceiver. Connection are made via DB9 or 3 way screw terminal.
This board is now retired, replacement board is the new PiCAN2.
Features
- CAN v2.0B at 1 Mb/s
- High speed SPI Interface (10 MHz)
- Standard and extened data and remote frames
- CAN connection via standard 9-way sub-D connector or screw terminal
- Can be use with OBDII cable
- serial LCDready
- Nylon PCB support to the Rev 2 Raspberry Pi. Gives sturdy support
- LED indicator
- Two user push buttons
Documents
- Schematic Rev B
- Software installation
- Writing your own program
- Example use
- Example use 2
Raspberry Pi NOT included.
For Raspberry Pi 2 Model, please follow these instructions.
Activate the interface with# ip link set can0 up type can bitrate 500000
Connect the PiCAN to a CAN-bus network and monitor traffic by using command:
#./candump can0
You should see something like this:To send a CAN message use :
# ./cansend can0 7DF#0201050000000000
This will send a CAN ID of 7DF. Data 02 01 05 – coolant temperature request
A blog post of using PiCAN with Wireshark.
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