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Creating my own "OBD-II reader" to access the CAN bus of a car

This post will cover my attempt of building a completely open way to read the OBD2 messages sent through the CAN bus of a car, and communicating with the ECU (Electronic Control Unit), basically “the brain” of the car. More will be coming :) Update on 2024-07-10 I’ve been working in this project since before writing this post, and there’s more info to share than I initially thought. I think a better way to share this is to write a series of posts, showing my progress and what I’ve learned so far....

2024-01-20 · 2 min · (updated 2024-07-21) · Appuchia

MSI Prestige 14H B12U

I recently bought this laptop and I wanted to test it to see if it fitted me, so I thought I would publish the results in case it helps anyone with their decisions. These results won’t be scientific, but they can serve as a guideline to estimate the performance of this and similar processors taking also into account other measurements from more scientific sources such as CPUMark or Geekbench. They won’t be perfect either, no test ultimately is, but I think they’re worth taking into account....

2023-11-21 · 8 min · (updated 2024-01-23) · Appuchia