Last Saturday was the first meeting at Hive13.  On Friday, I gave a talk
about reversing the Honda Nav system and a quick intro to CAN and Open
Garages.  Saturdays turnout was much smaller so we mainly described CAN to
a few people and worked on some of the new tools.

Dave B shared some info on his CAN in the Middle Device.  The HW porn is
posted up on the site with some specs: http://wiki.hive13.org/CANiTM

I released a tool called CANiBUS.  This was originally going to be the
front-end for just the CAN in the Middle device but we thought we could do
much more with it.  So there is a CANIBUS Server that can connect to one or
more CAN devices (and cars)  The client interface is separate.   It uses an
XML protocol to talk between client and server.  Clients connect and can
select a CAN device to start a "hack session" on.  This gives us a lot of
flexibility in that you can have a classroom full of people and work on one
car w/o overloading the battery.  You can also have people connect in
remotely and work on the same car and even have read-only instructor modes,
etc.  Separate clients allows for different interfaces to specialize in
different things.  They could also run on any platform, device, tablet,
etc.  A chat interface is also built in, both for the lobby and individual
hack sessions.

While this code is still uber alpha, we have released the source:
http://wiki.hive13.org/CANiBUS

It also comes with a Ncurses client that I use to test out the protocol,
bonus is that it can easily run on a headless CANiBUS server and can be
operated over SSH.

We still have a TON to do.  The OpenGarages site still needs a lot of work,
policy documents still need to be drafted as well as actual on-car hacking
time.  We are hoping by next months meeting we will have a CAN in the
Middle prototype board ready as well as at least ELM327 Can support (Uber
cheap OBD Scantool) as well as a CAN simulator for testing and developing
clients.

Craig