PICAN CAN-Bus Board - Retired, Replacement available

This PiCAN board provide CAN-Bus capability for the Raspberry Pi. It uses the Microchip MCP2515 CAN controller with MCP2551 CAN transceiver. Connection are made via DB9 or 3 way screw terminal.

• CAN v2.0B at 1 Mb/s
• High speed SPI Interface (10 MHz)
• Standard and extened data and remote frames
• CAN connection via standard 9-way sub-D connector or screw terminal
• Can be use with OBDII cable
• serial LCD ready
• Nylon PCB support to the Rev 2 Raspberry Pi. Gives sturdy support
• LED indicator
• Two user push buttons

For Raspberry Pi 2 Model, please follow these instructions.

Activate the interface with

Connect the PiCAN to a CAN-bus network and monitor traffic by using command:

# ./candump can0

You should see something like this:

To send a CAN message use :

This will send a CAN ID of 7DF. Data 02 01 05 - coolant temperature request

A blog post of using PiCAN with Wireshark.