Here's a link to an interesting article on work being done to make a microcontroller module to interface with automotive electronics. Here's a quote from the article - CULMINATE (CUstomized Laboratory using MIcrocontroller for New Automotive Technology Education) is a project now in development at…

The "Arduino" for the automotive world.

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