I second what Hightower says.The next rev should have the ability to repurpose any pin that isn’t 4, 5 and 16 (grounds and +VE) to any method of communication. The point being that you could put the codes from any vehicle on the reader, but even the Ford data is limited.I happen to have couple of Chipkits with the network (includes 2 CAN interfaces) shield, so i was thinking of trying it, but since it’s for Fords only currently (no other car manufacturer or anyone else have contributed any codes) and i don’t have a Ford, it’s kind of useless to me.I do wish it would take off. Ford has the OpenXC platform ( ) for reading stuff, but it also is really limited. A perfect job on all cars is about as likely as viable cold fusion. ABS is not covered under the compulsory information that vehicle manufacturers have to provide by law so the answer to that is no.It has been an uphill struggle with manufacturers to force them to release the engine diagnostics and real time data information and, for now, that is where it stops.An open source OBD will allow people that are brave enough to extract more and hopefully that will all be collected somewhere so that eventually there will be something equivalent to the X431 Launch that does a reasonable job on most cars.
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