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By Ruinned
#193501
Hey everyone,

So i am very new to arduinos and still learning a lot about them, the project i am working on, is making a digital display for my car that will read data from the ecu and display it on a screen.

My car is a Nissan skyline so it doesn't run on OBD it uses Nissan consult. the cable i am using is Consult port to USB. so far i have being able to make a program on the computer that can successfully read and stream data from the ECU.

The part i am unsure about is using the usb port on the arduino board to communicate with the ecu. i will be using either the uno or mega for this project.
What i need to know is, If i plug the ecu cable directly into the usb port on the board will it be able to communicate via serial port ??