3 posts tagged with "zencan"

I've finally published v0.0.1 of zencan to crates.io.

Two weeks ago, I posted about a Rust CANOpen Stack I was working on. It was in a bit of a disfunctional state at the time. Since then, I've ported two firmware projects to use it and in the process made a lot of progress on it! There's still a ton to do to get it where I want, but today I recorded a quick live demo of the first two boards communicating using zencan! Production quality is low, but hopefully it's still a useful way to get a feel for what it is trying to do.

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Code running on the boards:

• can-io: https://github.com/mcbridejc/can-io-firmware
• i4-controller: https://github.com/mcbridejc/i4-controller-firmware

I've been kicking around an idea for a while now to create a CAN bus communication stack for Rust, and now it is finally taking shape. It's still a work-in-progress, but I'm getting ready to publish a rough prototype, so I want to write about what I want it to be. I'm calling it Zencan, and it's an implementation of the CANOpen protocol, with a few planned extensions.