This project is a demo of PiCAN2 driving a Mazda RX8 instrument cluster.

PARTS LIST

• PiCAN2 Board
• Raspberry Pi 3
• Mazda RX8 192 Instrument Cluster 2004 (from eBay)

Wiring

Wire up the instrument cluster using the right hand 2x6 connector.
The CAN_H and CAN_L connects to the PiCAN2 board. +12v to an external 12v PSU.

Software Install

The software is written in python and can be downloaded from github. Before using the demo program, the PiCAN2 driver and Python-CAN need to be installed first.

To start the demo:

python3 cluster_rpm.py

You should see the rpm needle move then falls back to 0 then repeat.