Hardware

Ain’t no fun without hardware.

Papilio pro

The basic for the project was using the http://papilio.cc/index.php?n=Papilio.PapilioPro from gadgetfactory. This is a afordable 6 LX based FPGA with nice tools/tutorials around it.

Saleae Logic Analyzer

Circuit simluation

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Spice and eeschema

Alternatives

There are a few good hardware alternatives to this project. A beaglebone black (has two can controllers on board and just lacks the phys). STM32 + CANoodler from ChipWhisperer a can2serial adapter like http://www.can232.com/. Those of course are not a cool.