The product is aimed at hackers and car enthusiasts. You want to know your top speed, 0 - 60 etc? This might be the device for you.
Afaik there's already products out there that do the same thing. This could be at a lower price point though.
There doesn't seem to be anything new about this product other than marketing and a high price tag. I'd love for that to not be the case, however. Maybe I'm missing some features of it.
It supports 3x CAN, 2x LIN, and 1x GMLAN. It also charges a phone. On the computer side, it has both USB and Wi-Fi.
It uses an STM32F413 for low level stuff and an ESP8266 for Wi-Fi. They are connected over high speed SPI, so the panda is actually capable of dumping the full contents of the busses over Wi-Fi, unlike every other dongle on amazon. ELM327 is weak, panda is strong.
>George Hotz:
None of the < $100 ones can dump all the data, they don't have the bandwidth. Or be reliable enough to send a packet at 100hz for hours without dropping any. Trust me, I wouldn't be building hardware if I didn't have to.
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Main reason I haven't released it yet is that the connection management, while quite resilient, is so hackish that I am bit embarrassed by it.
The only time I've really used that data was the time some jerk stopped me, cursing at me for driving like a maniac and endangering his children (who he'd been allowing to play in the street). With the logged data, I was able to show that from the time I turned onto his street, I had been going no faster than 10mph below the limit.
The OBD-II error-reading software is very useful. It showed me that the Hyundai mechanics were completely incompetent. After holding my car in the shop for a week, they finally concluded that the problem is exactly what these diagnostics told me they were (plus 10 minutes of googling).
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