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Vehicle Interface features STN1110 technology from OBD Solutions

Team Hermes, a group of 4 students attending IT Sligo in Ireland, won the top prize at the 2011 Microsoft Imagine Cup in New York this month with an innovative project that addresses the global issue of road safety.

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Sparkfun.com, the world's most popular electronics hobbyist site, has just released their OBD-II Development Board. The board is based on our own STN11xx chip family, and has all the electronics necessary to interface with any OBD-II compliant vehicle's ECU. Sparkfun designed the board to be compatible with their existing USB and Bluetooth development boards. We're big supporters of any STN1110 development, and are excited that Sparkfun has introduced a product that makes it easy for hobbyists, prototypers, students, engineers, or anyone interested in OBD-II to get their project off the ground.

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OBDLink SX released - Big on Performance, Small on Price Since its release, OBDLink has become the market's best-selling PC based scan tool. Today, we raised the bar. OBDLink SX provides the same core functionality as its big brother, but in a streamlined package. Our popular OBDWiz software is still...

Our STN1110 Featured New Product in January's Circuit Cellar

We are honored to be mentioned in the January 2011 issue of Circuit Cellar. STN1110, our OBD Interpreter IC, is covered in the 'New Product News' section. Circuit Cellar is the 'World's Source for Embedded Electronics Engineering Information', and we are pleased to have our product release covered by such a prestigious periodical. Pick up your copy today!

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We are excited to announce the official launch of STN1110 -- the world's smallest, lowest cost multiprotocol OBD interpreter chip. The STN1110 puts OBD data within the reach of even the most cost-sensitive commercial and consumer applications.

STN1110 supports all legislated OBD-II protocols. It features a secure bootloader, advanced message filtering, low power mode, and a large OBD message buffer. STN1110 also has full support for the ELM327 command set, while outperforming the original ELM327 IC in every category: stability, performance, and features.

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We are excited to announce that there is now a WiFi option for OBDLink. Currently OBDLink is the only OBD scan tool on the market available with both a WiFi and a USB interface. OBDLink WiFi is compatible with a wide range of software, including OBDwiz, ScanXL, and ScanMaster. It...

*pyOBD-II (a.k.a. "pyobd2") is a Python library for communicating with OBD-II vehicles. Its goal is to make writing programs for vehicle diagnostics and monitoring vehicle data as easy as possible. Being written entirely in Python, pyobd2 is intended to be portable across many platforms, including Mac OS X, Linux, BSD...

Donal O'Connor is a B.Sc. student in the Software Development and Computer Networking program at the [Cork Institute of Technology](http://www.cit.ie/) in Ireland. In January of 2009, Donal presented his project idea for a final year student project, a Linux-based in-car diagnostic computer, and asked if ScanTool.net would sponsor him. Donal has just finished his project, [Automon](http://automon.donaloconnor.net/). Read more about it, in Donal's [blog](http://automon.donaloconnor.net/).

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Due to a late delivery of a critical component, shipments of ElmScan 5, ElmScan 5 USB, and ElmScan 5 Bluetooth scan tools will be delayed. Orders placed between February 4th and February 10, will ship on Wednesday, February 11th (sooner, if possible). Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience. Sale...