Open Garages starts Youtube channel

An excerpt from a Seattle-area announcement from Open Garages, a car hacking group, on availability of a new video feed from them:

OpenGarages YouTube Channel

OpenGarages now has a YouTube channel, you can watch the first intro video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKjMreFHTd4

The channel is going to cover vehicle “hacks” and modifications.  It will be a video series covering a lot of what is in the Car Hacker’s Handbook and showing off people’s modifications.  These will be really short segments on different topics 3-5 minutes.  This allows you to quickly locate the area you are working on and just view segment without skipping through some longer video.

The first tutorial video is now up as well, it is on Vehicle Networks and can be viewed here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx5Ws6qdZCI

If you are in the Seattle area and want to demo something or see certain tutorials, let me know.  Please subscribe to the channel too, subscribing let’s us justify that there is a desire to see these videos and we can use them as justifications to get sponsors.

Speaking of sponsorship.  If you are a company that is interested in sponsoring one or more modules, please contact me as well. My goal is to make a video series that is better than just talking to my webcam.

Thanks and spread the word!

Craig Smith

The Car Hacker’s Handbook

No Starch Press has an interesting book coming out (parts already out online) on car hacking:

Chapter list below. Chapters 2,3,4,5,7,8,9 are available now.

1: Policies and Guidelines
2: Understanding Attack Surfaces
3: Utilizing the Linux SocketCAN Interface
4: Bus Protocols
5: Diagnostic Communications
6: CAN Bus RE
7: ECU Hacking
8: Building and Using ECU Test Benches
9: In-Vehicle Infotainment Systems
10: Vehicle-to-Vehicle
11: Weaponizing
12: TPMS
13: KeySystems
14: Hotwiring
15: Embedded System Attack
16: Performance Tuning
Appendix A: Open Garages
Appendix B: Tools

https://www.nostarch.com/carhacking

In addition to this NEW book, there’s a 2014 edition of a free car hacking book by Open Garages:

http://opengarages.org/handbook/