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The Quadrivium EnsembleBot project is a mashup between old school musical instruments and the modern MIDI controlled world. Built by a small team over several years, these hand crafted instruments …read more Continue reading The Quadrivium EnsembleBot Is A Labour Of Love
As cars have become more sophisticated electronically, understanding the CAN bus that forms the backbone of automotive digital systems has become more and more important for hacking cars. Inexpensive microcontroller …read more Continue reading Using CanoPy to Visualize the CAN Bus
Analog gauges gave way to all manner of fancy electroluminescent and LED gauges in the ’80s, but the trend didn’t last long. It’s only in the last decade or so …read more Continue reading Classic Triumph Gets A Modern Digital Dash
As [Luuk Esselbrugge] explains in a recent blog post, his 2002 Volvo S60 had an optional GPS navigation system and backup camera that used a motorized display that would rise out of the dashboard when needed. His particular car didn’t …read more
Continue reading Raspberry Pi Takes Over Volvo’s Integrated LCD
There was a time not too long ago when hacking a car more often than not involved literal hacking. Sheet metal was cut, engine cylinders were bored, and crankshafts were machined to increase piston travel. It was all in the pursuit of milking the last ounce performance out of every …read more
Continue reading Remoticon Video: Learn How to Hack a Car with Amith Reddy
You need a Swiss Army knife of serial communications? Ollie is a compact isolated USB adaptor that provides USB, CAN bus, and two UARTs at logic, RS-232, and RS-485 signaling levels, as well as an isolated power supply. [Slimelec] has managed to squeeze all this into a package the size …read more
Continue reading USB Adaptor Isolates Multiple Serial Interfaces
It used to be that upgrading a car stereo was fairly simple. There were only a few mechanical sizes and you could find kits to connect power, antennas, and speakers. Now, though, the car stereo has interfaces to steering wheel controls, speed sensors, rear-view cameras, and more. [RND_ASH] was tired …read more
Continue reading Upgraded Infotainment Options on a 14 Year Old Mercedes
In the old days, a physical button or switch on the dashboard of your car would have been wired to whatever device it was controlling. There was potentially a relay in the mix, but still, it wasn’t too hard to follow wires through the harness and figure out where they …read more
Continue reading Developing An Automatic Tool For CAN Bus Hacking
It used to be that there wasn’t a problem on the average car that couldn’t be solved with a nice set of wrenches, a case of beer, and a long weekend. But the modern automobile has more in common with a spaceship than those vintage rides of yesteryear. Bristling with …read more
Continue reading Sniffing CAN To Add New Features To A Modern Car
Firefox gives more scrutiny to add-ons but Firefox also forgot to give more scrutiny to a cert, Path traversals trampled by ransomware, Secure Software Design: The Next Frontier In Cybersecurity, Trust the Stack, Not the People, VRT adds a CAN, and… Continue reading Application News – Application Security Weekly #60