SAN DIEGO Orca
The SAN DIEGO Orca snaps onto your FREE-WILi 2 and turns the open electronics multitool into a full vehicle and industrial network interface. You get ISO CAN FD, RS485, and both flavors of single-pair automotive Ethernet (10BASE-T1S and 10BASE-T1L) through one rugged DB-15 connector, powered straight from the vehicle battery via VBATT.
Modern vehicles and industrial systems do not speak USB. They speak CAN FD, RS485, and increasingly, single-pair Ethernet. SAN DIEGO Orca brings all of them to FREE-WILi 2 so you can sniff, script, simulate, and stress-test the same buses running in cars, trucks, robots, and factory floors.
Plug it into the FREE-WILi extension connector, wire up the DB-15, and you are on the network with the same Python, Rust, C/C++ API, touchscreen, and onboard Linux workflow you already use.
What is on board
- ISO CAN FD
- 1x channel with selectable on-board termination for end-node or tap use
- RS485
- 1x channel for Modbus, motor drives, sensor chains, and legacy field systems
- 10BASE-T1S
- 1x multidrop single-pair Ethernet for modern zonal vehicle networks
- 10BASE-T1L
- 1x long-reach single-pair Ethernet up to 1 km for industrial/building automation
- VBATT Input
- 1x vehicle-battery input to power the setup directly from source
- Connector
- All I/O routes through one rugged DB-15 harness interface
Who it is for
- Automotive Teams
- Engineers validating ECUs, gateways, and zonal architectures on CAN FD and automotive Ethernet
- Security Research
- Researchers exploring vehicle networks with scriptable hardware workflows
- Industrial and IoT
- Developers bridging RS485 field devices and 10BASE-T1L sensor networks
- Makers and Students
- Learners building real automotive and industrial protocol skills on open hardware
Why FREE-WILi + SAN DIEGO
A USB-CAN adapter does CAN. A USB-RS485 stick does RS485. A T1S media converter does T1S. SAN DIEGO Orca does all of it on one module attached to a device with a touchscreen, dual RP2350s, an FPGA, onboard Linux, Python scripting, and wireless connectivity.
Log CAN traffic to scripts, bridge it over WiFi, display live bus data on-screen, and automate full test sequences without carrying a laptop.