Carloop – Make Apps for your Car

make apps for your car

Build your own connected car application

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Carloop is a 100% open source development kit that lets you connect your car to the cloud via 3G, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Start with our sample apps to track your car with GPS, log mileage on an SD Card or check your engine codes. Go for full customization by writing your own Carloop app. See what others are building on the community forum.

Why Carloop?

We do the heavy lifting

We make the adapter so you can focus on the fun part, making applications that read data from your car in realtime. Ready to connect your car to the cloud?

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Powered by Particle

Carloop is built to work with the Particle Photon and Electron boards. We leverage Particle’s powerful cloud infrastructure and community so you can get an application running in no time

Built by makers for makers

Carloop works with every car and it’s designed for both beginners and experts alike. Visit the community to get help getting started. We also have all our code on our GitHub repository.

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Truly Open Source

Carloop is completely open source and supported by a community of car hackers ready to answer questions.

Carloop Library

Follow these instructions on the community to create your first application using the Carloop library. Learn about programming with the Particle platform at https://docs.particle.io

Carloop Hardware

Want to look at how Carloop connects to the OBD port? The schematics are available. You can even modify the board to fit your specific project!

Sample apps for Carloop

What can you build?

Check out the Carloop app directory for apps you can flash to your Carloop right now and code snippets to help you build your own apps.

Browse sample apps