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- Cybersecurity professional for the past decade.
- IT professional most of my life.
- I've done labor, roads, windshields, even in-car breathalyzers!
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Seems like it is time to make an RC under the car inspection tool. Thanks for the video
@2:50 INDEED also mine reason
My recommendation on these: only replace the parts that are actually broken. The new screens and click wheels you can buy are of lower quality compared to the originals. The click wheels are slower and less precise, the screens have worse viewing angles. Not that they're bad, but you can def tell in comparison. Enjoy your new iPod!
Right? Had to settle for what I could find haha. Appreciate you!
Great vid dude. Good shit. NDH!
I am active ipod user. I used ipod nano 4 for around 4 years and now im using ipod nano 7. I got nano4 for around 25$us back in 2019 and nano7 for 45$us half a year ago. In my opinion, ipod is one of the best thing i ever bought
iPod gang
How much did it cost in parts?
About $550 CAD all in. Nostalgia is expensive.
@@AndrewGerlitz oof, I hope it serves you a long time. Thanks for mentioning ugly designs of other devices. If I someday decide to put all my music collection in one place- definitely it will be an ipod classic...
Great video! I just got my first iPod classic ever. Despite not having enough money to afford one as a kid, somehow I feel the nostalgia just from seeing this video. Amazing job!
Long live the iPod! Many core memories for me. Glad to see you keep the legend alive!
Clicked for iPod, stayed for the feels. 😞
Just a different era ☹️
this is such a cool video, dude well done !
Appreciate it, glad you enjoyed!
Super cool, I'm thinking of peeking into CAN to see if i can get steering wheel angle sensor data for a backup cam project I'm working on. Depending on what's least invasive it might be easier than tapping the sensor directly. The downside might be that it would make installation more car model dependent if I want to share the project.
So many systems to look into nowadays, excited to see what you come up with!
Another great video! Loved all the details you provided and full transparency!
Thanks for the support! I was about time to document some of the things I've been working on. Question is whats next? Appreciate you!
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Have you consulted an electrician to get something put in to handle the load? It would greatly increase the safety as well as the productivity and safety of the rigs in question. I would also look into a heat extraction plan for these riggs, maybe look at the design of AWS they have platforms they made to push head out and pull in cool air. another thing to keep in mind is a box fan with a filter attachment as a air purifier it will keep the whole room free from dust particles that will eventually build. Are there engineered fail safes incase of power surge or hiccups from a stuck fan? nothing like an auto shut off if the power is to high, and a smoke detector that will turn off the power to the rigg if noticed. I'm not a miner, or know anything about this stuff. But hey, a few tips never hurt.
One of the partners is an electrician. Thats actually how I learned all this in the first place. The electrician we called to investigate and replace the outlet mentioned there were poor connections on that outlet. Some proper fire suppression systems would definitely be something to put in place taking on a project like this again.
Very nice video; just the right amount of detail, and appreciate the candid financials at the end! I bet there was an element of fun and excitement as part of the experience.
Glad you enjoyed it! Was very cool to get everything running and definitely some out of the box thinking. Had a lot of fun along the way!
I also almost burnt my house down mining in 2012 lol Had to replace the plug outlet and beef up the power cable and reduced the load. Wouldn't have been an issue if I used the 250V line.
I was a little surprised it wasn’t the ASICs that did it. Oh well, glad everyone’s ok!
man i spent too much time messing with stuff like this back in the day...a lot of euro cars have apps avail to toggle settings and such like turn on features that the car is capable of but not active and such , BMW have an entire community of beemer coders , the thing i htink is going to happen now is that we have ai we can take the data and map it much easier for custom changes
I feel that. My buddy had an e92 we flashed with JB4 on his cell phone. I was blown away haha.
Hello Andrew, what's the entry level tools to can bus reverse engineering? I am thinking to get into automotive cyber security field. I am auto electrician by trade. Any advice?
You can use the CANtac reader I mentioned if you can find one, it was a good opener for us, all in was about $100 CAD. The software we used was also free/opensource. School bought the device for us, so I don't actually own one, I'm looking into alternatives myself.
@@AndrewGerlitz Thank you for the advice.
I would like to have a device that could be plugged inline between the scan tool and the OBD-II port such the device would tell the scan tool the MIL is off and that there are no malfunction codes stored. It would have to pass the VIN and other vehicle specific info. Does anyone have an idea how to do that easily for someone who handy with building hardware but not so much writing code? Does such a device already exist?
Andrew, this was awesome to see. I have a 2022 Sentra and I have a handful of things I would like to add to my home automation server from my car, and I was thinking CAN injection would be the way to go. As an experienced electrical engineer but total noob on CAN messaging, where would you start? I want to add things like lights, remote start and a bunch of feedback sensors from the car to a device that can communicate through a cellular modem to my server at home. Its feels very overwhelming to even think about where to begin. I am trying to find someone experienced that could help me get started with some advice. Im even willing to oay, because this is some niche knowledge.
I know the feeling, I was told it was too much when I picked the project. Like any project, lay out everything you want to accomplish, and start working at it one thing at a time. In your case, I'd focus only on getting a reader, and figure out how to sniff data. Once you get a feel for that, then look at actually forging some packets (Start simple, like a traction control light! See if you can find the DBC file for your car on the internet, it'll save a ton of time). Then you should have a better idea if what you want is feasible via CAN, or if you need to make any adjustments. Worry about the transmission of the data and the server side stuff later (Something like a rasPi or arduino with a GSM module can take care of that). Feel free to DM me on X if you have questions.
How do you determine if CAN is available at the OBD port? I too, found the music distracting from the actual on-screen content and audio.
Noted, you can tell by the pinout of your OBD port, depending which pins are populated you can tell what protocol is used.
ik this is a long shot, if your up to make a video on how to read the serial data from old aldl then use it back just like canbus injection, that would be beneficial and i got a 93 camaro that i can test with as i cant find any videos on how to do so, only explanations of how serial works when i want to know how to do both for my car.
Would be interesting to explore!
In france, anything you would do to a car would be virtually illegal, it is dumb
Artificial limitations. The bane of my existence!
Wow super surprising the CANbus doesn’t use a rolling code and encryptions to prevent this sort of “attack”. Anyway cool project!
I'm sure that's all in development as we speak. Appreciate you!
Appreciate you all! It's early into my KZread career still and I never expected things to take off as quickly as they have. Need to keep on the gas pedal! I'm working on another video for a different project right now and hope to have it to you soon. Stay awesome, and we'll see you in the next one!
"CAN Sniffer" - haha...
Please make more content like this
Still feeling things out, Ill do my best!
@@AndrewGerlitz I think cars and their control data after a certain date should become open source or public domain
Awesome!!
Nice! I've done some CANBUS work. Rather wide open. RIP Michael Hastings.
How I never came across him in my studies is beyond me. Unbelievable and RIP indeed.
A much easier way to go is a program like BUSMASTER and a device like a Kvaser Leaf. ANything with SocketCAN can be used. Be up and running in 5 minutes
this is awesome! grats on your hardwork paying off! i've been talkin about this being possible and thought about playing with it for years, but never tried it.
Appreciate you! It's a fun and challenging project to take on, I would definitely give it a try!
Willing to see if you can guide me to do the same for my Mercedes.
Challenge: Find the telemetry code that sends data back to the manufacturer for data collection and third party sales and disable or destroy it. That would be a huge public service!
You are my kind of people! What I can tell you is Apple Car Play will not work if you have a VPN enabled on your device (at least in my 2019 Elantra). If I figure it out, Ill let everyone know!
@@AndrewGerlitz Make it open source!... ask for donations! Once that kind of sniffer is in the wild, those mega corps will be pulling their collective hairs out! lol
With an oscilloscope or protocol analyzer connected to the telecommunications antenna, the bitstream can be intercepted. 😉
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Well CAN Bus is something that will die and be replaced with FD and XL or automotive ethernet. What you did is not actually hacking anything it’s basically using DBC information of the car to change some states in ECU‘s. Keep in mind that ECU‘s no longer have non authenticated message buses. Well at least some..
Do you CRC's?
@@honestlocksmith5428 Some manufacturers think crcs will help them but you can clearly see what changed and decode it, it’s only slightly more effort..
@platin2148 That's true. It's calculated and added to verify the authenticity of a message. Beyond that, what are you talking about? I'm curious to learn more.
@@honestlocksmith5428 MacSec and also some stuff that isn’t yet public.
Hey there. Nice vid, popped up after a video I was watching. I'm hitting that 'subscribe' in a moment. Question for you: Did/do you attend any local BSides and checkout their Car Hacking Village? If not: there's my tip for you. Keep up the good work.
Sadly the car hacking village wasn’t a thing while we were working on it, we did go to BSides at the time but topics were unrelated. Appreciate you!
@@AndrewGerlitz ever find yourself at BSidesLDN, we have a great car hacking village run by minty. I Goon there, ask for Bazza.
wow i never knew you could do this with an obd port! such a cool project and very underrated video!
It’s funny, I never really thought anyone else would find it all that interesting. Guess I was wrong! Appreciate you!
Great work.
My 1994 car doesn't have a canbus, neither does my 1971 car... lol
Great Video 💯
Glad you enjoyed!
Small nitpick: “Every car has a CAN bus” except all the cars produced before CAN was implemented… lots of cars are still out there with some variant of Class 2 serial, and even cars that pre-date having multiple control modules and only have a PCM that runs just an engine, or an engine and transmission. In fact, ~85% of the vehicles I’ve owned thus far have not had CAN, but ~65% of them had some form of serial communication and multiple control modules. Second small nitpick: I don’t think the music is needed, I can deal with it, but it is a little distracting at times for me at least.
Was meant as anything fairly new, I’ll have to specify next time. As for the music, it’s definitely too loud, just some growing pains haha.
@@AndrewGerlitz no worries, that’s what growth and adaptation is all about. I personally was hoping for a bit more in-depth exploration of CAN hacking, but I think this is a good “primer” video for anyone just getting their feet wet or discovering CAN stuff. You seem to have no issues presenting clearly and in a manner that I’d think was pretty easy to follow and understand for just about anyone looking for content on this topic. I may have been a little too pedantic/nit-picky with your wording, I tend to be that way with accuracy sometimes. I feel like a majority of people ending up on this content are likely to be more familiar with what vehicles do and don’t have CAN, but I thought about it from the perspective of someone who ended up on this video with very little knowledge of cars and CAN who had a budding interest. Purely trying to provide constructive feedback, not nitpick just for the sake of it.
Canbus was introduced in the mid 80s and has been on all US cars since the late 90s
@@UnlikelyToRemember I agree with CANbus being developed and introduced in the 80s, by Bosch if I recall. But I disagree with it being in “all” US cars since the late 90s. I’ve owned, worked on, and modified a number of late 90s and early 2000s vehicles that only had single wire class 2 serial or some other variant of a single wire serial protocol to communicate between control modules as well as available at the DLC. I actually don’t recall seeing CANbus between any modules in GM vehicles until around 2004, and at least some those particular ones I can recall didn’t have the CANbus present at the DLC and still used Class 2 serial between all the modules as well. It may have indeed existed in some US vehicles since the late 90s, but certainly not “all” of them based on my experience.
@@Moddage I stand corrected, ODB-II was mandated in 1996, but it didn't have to be CANBus until 2008
Thanks for the vid, interesting
You bet, thanks for watching!
Hello, I have an old lt46 with so it seems mercedes sprinter 14 pin diagnostic port . I have bought a connector to switch it to OBD but it fails to connect. Any idea why?
Great video! I would like to turn on/off all systems in my own car as I like, and not be "forced" to use everything like I currently are as a European. It's my car, I decide if I want line assistant or not and so on
Right? Artificial limitations are such a joke. Appreciate you!
Really hope you keep this project going!
Long term that's the plan!
My favourite video so far!
Happy to hear!
Best of luck on this journey! Seems like the youtube algorithm likes you ;) got this recommended completely on random. I see you've studied youtube script-writing a bit with the bonus and the "top 5". Good stuff brother. Only thing i can say is that if you provide value in every video to the viewer, you will see succes eventually. It might take more time than you expect to grow your youtube channel to a decent size - youtube is notorious for that. But keep grinding, and i wish you great health and great succes with your channel! Enjoy the new venture!
Appreciate the kind words! I have a bit of a window to figure things out, but it’s experience that will help in the long run regardless of what happens. You the real MVP!
Oh. You really went all in. Good luck!
Go big or go home! Appreciate you!
If you use a scan tool you can manipulate all that but if you decode the scan tool signals for an individual action than input that and can save time. You can make a script and flash the ecm and record the way you want.
I really wish they would publish their CAN BUS messages list.
Right? What a pain, all that trial and error haha.
Those values are on what’s called a DBC file you maybe able to find them on the web.