At last year’s Red Bull Global Rally Cross event some decent swag was handed out by the major sponsors. One of the items we scored was a phone booster battery — not bad! While cool, the construction of these are on the cheaper side. Like other inexpensive boosters, they lack a button to power up the charge port – they just…
Author: Brent Picasso
Use RaceCapture as a general purpose CAN bus logger and reverse engineer your car’s data
Did you know you can use RaceCapture as a general purpose CAN bus logger to spy on data coming from your car’s CAN bus? If you have RaceCapture/Pro or RaceCapture/Apex it’s a simple copy/paste of our CAN bus logging script. It’s often the first step in mapping an unknown CAN bus system, and we cover…
[video] Toyota 86 / Subaru BRZ CAN bus data – steering angle, brake pressure, oil temp and more
Luke Fleming, with help from Josh Leask of 86Drift Tuning, tapped his RaceCapture/Pro right into to the firehose of CAN bus data on his Toyota 86. Now he has steering angle, brake pressure, oil and coolant temperature, throttle position, RPM and wheel speeds – all using the direct CAN mapping capabilities of the RaceCapture system. Special thanks goes to…
New Dealer: PFTuning
We’re excited to welcome PFTuning to our dealer network! PFTuning has been tuning autocross and road race cars since 2006. Peter Florance, the company’s principle, is experienced in MoTeC, MegaSquirt, Autronic, Electromotive and many other ECU’s. PFTuning is located in Virginia Beach VA and does most of their tuning at Abacus Racing Services; also in…
RaceCapture firmware 2.11.0 / RaceCapture app 1.9.0 released!
A hell of a release It’s an app and firmware release that marks a serious milestone. It almost seems the amount of thought, discussion and teeth gnashing that preceded it might have consumed more energy than it took to actually make it! Granted – all of that planning and analysis plays into building it correctly the first time, but as…
Building and shipping your pre-orders! (aka wow that’s a lot of RaceCapture systems)
Current Status We’re in production at our little factory (Lab)! We’re building, testing and now, shipping RaceCapture pre-orders! The last few weeks of waiting for delayed inventory deliveries are now capping off with dawn-to-dusk (and beyond) work illuminated by the Lab’s 1500 watts of fluorescent lighting – which, in a way, is fine since Seattle this time…
Featured Dealer: Race-Electronic.com
Today’s featured dealer is Race-Electronic.com, and they seriously know their race car electronics. The team at Race-Electronic.com are addicted to motorsports, race car electrics and CAN data systems. Located in Austria, Race-Electronic.com set up some special RaceCapture/Pro scripts to integrate data from cars like Porsche Cayman GT4, Suzuki Swift Sport, Bosch Motorsport ABS M4, Izze Racing tire-temp sensors, a…
Featured Dealer: Racing Tech
Today’s featured dealer is Racing Tech – and you might’ve seen them at PRI this year. Contact them for the help you need for getting RaceCapture into your car! “We provide detailed care from the research and design to track support. Our work goes beyond meetings, quotes and technical functionality; we focus on our relationships, with…
Featured Dealer: Conover Motorsports
Today’s featured dealer is Conover Motorsports LLC – contact them this week to order your new RaceCapture system. Order this week to get your pre-order discount! “With over 15 years of road racing experience, Cameron at Conover Motorsports knows what you need in a data acquisition system and how to make it happen. Cameron specializes…
Introducing ShiftX2 – and bonus reward for RaceCapture pre-orders!
In the long long ago, the original ShiftX was introduced as part of the original RaceCapture/Pro IndieGoGo campaign – and for all its simplicity, people loved it and still do! A simple 3 segment array of LEDs that connected to RaceCapture/Pro’s GPIO outputs, it could be used as a shift light, for alerts, and more. Our…