Ben Krasnow

Thursday, March 23, 2017

T-shirts available now

Hello! I have re-launched the Applied Science T-shirt campaign on Teepspring. It will end in just a few days, but will re-launch after that, and be active for at least two weeks. These shirts are being sold at-cost -- thanks so much for your support!

https://teespring.com/AppliedScience_youtube

Monday, February 20, 2017

I show how to collect detailed CAN bus data from a Tesla Model S, and display it in the car's own web browser!

Complete Raspberry Pi with CAN bus shield and 12V buck converter: http://copperhilltech.com/raspberry-pi-3-system-with-can-bus-interface/

Tesla diagnostic connector: https://www.panjo.com/buy/tesla-diagnostic-cable-for-ms-mx-sept-2015-and-up-bare-wire-version-308125

RPi CAN bus tutorial: http://www.cowfishstudios.com/blog/canned-pi-part1

Get node.js installed on the RPi: http://thisdavej.com/beginners-guide-to-installing-node-js-on-a-raspberry-pi/

I used socket.io, which is a module that installs into node.js: https://www.npmjs.com/package/socket.io

Diagnostic connector pinout (scroll through the images):
http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=TeslaCANKit

Tesla CAN bus reverse engineering: https://skie.net/skynet/downloads

Basic sequence to setup the server on the Pi:
sudo ip link set can0 type can bitrate 500000 listen-only on
sudo ip link set can0 up

candump -cae can0,0:0,#FFFFFFFF

candump -cae can0,0:0,#FFFFFFFF | grep 106 | awk -Winteractive '{ print $10}' | node app.js

I will post the node.js code on my blog:

Support Applied Science on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/AppliedScience

app.js:

var readline = require('readline');
var rl = readline.createInterface({
input: process.stdin,
output: process.stdout,
terminal: false
});
pipedata = '';
rl.on('line', function(line){
    console.log(line);
pipedata = line;
});

var http = require('http'),
    fs = require('fs'),
    // NEVER use a Sync function except at start-up!
    index = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/index.html');

// Send index.html to all requests
var app = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
    res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
    res.end(index);
});

// Socket.io server listens to our app
var io = require('socket.io').listen(app);

// Send current time to all connected clients
function sendTime() {
//    io.emit('time', { time: new Date().toJSON() });
    io.emit('time', pipedata);
}

// Send current time every 10 secs
setInterval(sendTime, 100);

// Emit welcome message on connection
io.on('connection', function(socket) {
    // Use socket to communicate with this particular client only, sending it it's own id
    socket.emit('welcome', { message: 'Welcome!', id: socket.id });

    socket.on('i am client', console.log);
});

app.listen(8080);

index.html:


<!doctype html>

<html>

    <head>

        <script src='/socket.io/socket.io.js'></script>

        <script>

            var socket = io();



            socket.on('welcome', function(data) {

                addMessage(data.message);



                // Respond with a message including this clients' id sent from the server

                socket.emit('i am client', {data: 'foo!', id: data.id});

            });

            socket.on('time', function(data) {

                addMessage(data);

            });

            socket.on('error', console.error.bind(console));

            socket.on('message', console.log.bind(console));



            function addMessage(message) {

              //  var text = document.createTextNode(message);

                  document.getElementById('messages').textContent = message; 

        //     el = document.createElement('li'),

               //     messages = document.getElementById('messages');



              //  el.appendChild(text);

              //  messages.appendChild(el);

            }

        </script>



<style>

p.sansserif { font-family: Arial, Helvtica, sans-serif; font-size:300%;}

</style>



    </head>

    <body>

        <p class = "sansserif" id='messages'>Hello</p>

    </body>

</html>

Monday, January 2, 2017

Camera movement and dolly zoom with Chronos high-speed camera

High speed video with Chronos 1.4 camera movement and dolly zoom effect.

Big servo motor: https://www.teknic.com/products/clearpath-brushless-dc-servo-motors/

Small servo motor: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tropicallabs/mechaduino-powerful-open-source-industrial-servo-m

Ball-joint mount: https://www.amazon.com/VideoSecu-Univaersal-Satellite-Speaker-Bracket/dp/B005BV0FHG/

Chronos high-speed camera: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1714585446/chronos-14-high-speed-camera

Slow mo music: "Dewdrop Fantasy" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/