Boron and Adafruit feather RP2040 CANBUS

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Hello;

I recently built a project (found online) for a vehicle tracker. It uses a Boron, adafruit ultimate GPS, LCD screen and an adafruit tripler. I removed the LCD screen because the project is located inside of the vehicle dash so the LCD screen is useless.

I was thinking that it could be nice to remove the LCD screen and add an featherwing RP2040 CANBUS or even the featherwing along with its own Boron for backhauling the information.

Anyone ever played with this?
Thank you
D

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Note that you cannot put two Feather MCU modules on a passive doubler or tripler. Basically the MCU module is what supplies power to the Feather and drives the GPIO, and both the RP2040 Feather and Boron are MCU modules and you could damage one or both doing that.

The basic idea is good, just tricky to implement at the moment. But keep an eye out for a future announcement for something that might make doing something like that easier.

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So the best thing would be two different projects.

  1. Boron w GPS
  2. CANBUS

Any easier way to backhaul the CANBUS data that you guys can think of.

Thank

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Well if you only need the Boron, GPS, and CAN, and not the processing power of the RP2040, you can just use a FeatherWing tripler with the Boron, GPS, and the Adafruit MCP2515 FeatherWing. You can use it with the can-mcp25x library on the Boron.

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I guess I am going to buy the MCP2515. Wait out as I will probably have issues doing multiple void loops.

Thank you
David