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[AvaxAvax]

Hi everyone, I am a total newbie here. I have a project I am working on involving LIDAR. The laser measurement device supports CAN bus and I would like to communicate with it using CAN. I like the netduino platform because I am an experienced .net developer and would like to stay in visual studio if possible. Anyway I did a search here on "CAN" and nothing came up, but it very likely could be a filtered word like "the". If anyone has any information on an existing project or thoughts on what hardware would be required to communicate on a CAN bus it would be appreciated. Regards Avax

[JonnyBoats]

Hello Avax,

Welcome to the Netduino forums.

In the past there has been some discussion of CANbus, but I don't know what the current state of that interface is for Netduino.

I do know there are several people (including myself) who would like to see it on the Netduino.

Hopefully others may provide more detailed information.

Hi everyone,

I am a total newbie here.

I have a project I am working on involving LIDAR. The laser measurement device supports CAN bus and I would like to communicate with it using CAN.

I like the netduino platform because I am an experienced .net developer and would like to stay in visual studio if possible.

Anyway I did a search here on "CAN" and nothing came up, but it very likely could be a filtered word like "the".

If anyone has any information on an existing project or thoughts on what hardware would be required to communicate on a CAN bus it would be appreciated.

Regards
Avax

[Jack Chidley]

The great thing is that there are other .net platforms that support the CAN bus: GHI Electronics has a bunch. Personally I prefer Secret Labs stuff. Also don't forget to look on Codeplex and tinyclr.com for code snippets/device drivers. jack

[AvaxAvax]

Thanks guys for the info and support! It helps.