Apple Approved the App

From www.motobrain.net 8 years ago in Blogs

We will be shipping Motobrain to iOS users this week. If you are interested please email us at contact@motobrain.net with your Paypal email address and if you will require international shipping. Price breakdown: $300 for the Motobrain $30 for the parts kit $10 domestic shipping or $40 international shipping

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New Feature: PWM as input trigger

From www.motobrain.net 7 years ago in Blogs

Modern vehicles are beginning to use PWM to control the output of their circuits for the same reasons Motobrain does this. This is great, but it creates an issue if you want to use the status of the OEM circuit...

Temporarily Out of stock

From www.motobrain.net 7 years ago in Blogs

Sorry gang. We are currently out of stock. Texas Instruments is backordered on a necessary chip and it is gumming up our supply chain.

New Motobrain PCBs Delivered

From www.motobrain.net 7 years ago in Blogs

1300 Motobrain PCBs were delivered last week. We are looking forward to manufacturing our new versions of Motobrain very soon.

Low current draw on standby mode

From www.motobrain.net 7 years ago in Blogs

The next generation Motobrain hardware will draw 6.4mA in standby mode. It does not scan it’s inputs for triggers in this mode. It only waits for the key signal to turn on or the Bluetooth to connect. How it works...

Motobrain with CANBus and automotive connector

From www.motobrain.net 7 years ago in Blogs

The first prototype of the new Motobrain with CANBus and automotive connector just came out of the mold. She is looking good and works well!

What it takes to build a Motobrain

From www.motobrain.net 7 years ago in Blogs

Building just the smart half of Motobrain, what I call the “brain board”, requires 220 surface mounted components (40 different types) with 900 individual solder joints. I will manually place all the parts on the PCB and then “reflow solder”...

Using Motobrain to create a tachometer, just because we CAN(bus)

From www.motobrain.net 8 years ago in Blogs

Here we use Motobrain’s ability to read data off the vehicle OBDii port to build a functional tachometer. This experiment is designed to show off how flexible this gizmo is.

New Motobrain hardware tested to 100A

From www.motobrain.net 8 years ago in Blogs

We have a new high current PCB manufacturer and we are doing our first burn in test with their boards. We are currently driving 100A through the Motobrain to see how their boards endure the abuse. These boards use new...

CANBus Triggering

From www.motobrain.net 8 years ago in Blogs

We’ve been posting about updating Motobrain with CANBus and LINBus capability on Facebook for a little while now. Here is the first example of that triggering capability in action. Here we show a new Motobrain prototype monitoring the coolant temperature...

Graphing Voltage and Current Data

From www.motobrain.net 8 years ago in Blogs

We are updating the software to allow viewing the voltage and current data in a time series. It has not been released yet, but it is in the work queue.