Author: Storey Wilson

Sorry for the lapse in my progress reports. I have been very focused on other aspects of life. Additionally, I went to the Solihull Society Land Rover National Rally again. This year we were in Moab. See the Offroading section of the website for videos. I am still programminga away. I hope to have a…

A few more hundred lines of code have been written. I still have not absolutely verified the lower level communications protocols to my satisfaction, but I hope to get that done before the end of September. I am satisfied with the hardware design though, and have submitted the gerber files to my manufacturer for cost…

The third revision of the hardware boards arrived last night. I assembled the newest version of the board, and was extremely pleased to find that all of the changes that I had made to the power busses and the chip footprints were sucessful. At this point, everything on the hardware level is complete. I next…

Vacation is over and the world is rushing back in like a really bad hangover. I was fortunate enough to get a good ammount of sailing in, but maybe less fortunate to admit that I bought a M20 Scow Sailboat. I guess I have completed one more step towards being a man; I can now…

Real progress today…The second round of boards was received in the mail. I quickly ran down to the basement and mounted all of the tiny SMD components. The first impressions are excellent. The USB device appears in Windows correctly. All of the initial testing is going well. The next level of testing, will be to…

The first round of boards have bee received. Good News, the boards fit the enclosures. When the second round of boards is received next week, I will actually complete the first prototype board.  

The boards have all been submitted and I am simply waiting on the boards to be completed. In the meantime, I have been busy programming. I have completed the addition of all the fault codes from the different vehicle computers and vehicles. I am up to somewhere around 10,000 fault codes have been added to…

The corrected boards have now been ordered. I was able to add the L Line using the RTS line of the Serial Data Bus Interface. I also was able to add a duplicate K Line using the DTR Line. I added the duplicate K Line because it will be impossible to get the normal Tx…

I am diving deeply into the programming of the insane ammounts of fault codes that this project requires sifting through. The different model years across the models does not help either. As always, this will take longer than usual.  I also realized that in my rush to get the circuit boards out to the manufacturer,…