
A Small CAN Debugging Story
Intro I’m currently building a 3D-printed lifesize MrBaddeley R2D2, a project I inted to share more about in the future. The brains of these printed droids are historically a bunch of Arduinos with serial communications between various modules from various people. When researching which modules should power my droid, I came across the Next Gen Astromech, which aims to minimize the wiring between the modules leveraging a CAN-Bus. I bought a AstroCAN ProDuo board, which functions as the brain of the droid, running ShadowMD on an Arduino Mega 2560 and interfacing with the CAN-world on an ESP32 Dev Board. ...