Using Claude Code to drive CAN bus hardware and create one-shot test apps (article + video)

Hi all!

Today I've published a new intro article on streaming CAN via Ethernet – incl. accessing your CAN bus over USB, LAN, WiFi or LTE. You can also check out the 30 min youtube video!

I think it offers a great view into how I'm increasingly using Claude Code as my main interface for working with our CANsub device – whether this is for quickly finding my networked devices via mDNS lookups in Claude, creating and deploying mTLS certificates onto the devices – or building one-shot apps for showcasing my setups in custom dashboards.

For the CANsub we've made sure all the documentation is available as 'LLM TXT' files – and any work done with the device can be done easily via the REST/WebSocket interface and through the plug & play python-can integrations.

For example, in my '8 x CAN on LAN' showcase I built a python-can simulated 'test lab' incl. a visual dashboard – while in my 'remote LTE streaming of Kia EV6 data' I used Claude Code to build the custom web app. In both cases, the input prompts I provided took between 10-30 min of effort.

It's a good example of how my own content workflows have changed – i.e. this 'tailored showcasing' of key functionality would not have been possible before as the input effort would have been too high to make it worth it.

I hope you find this interesting and useful!

Martin, co-owner at CSS Electronics