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Re: I2C advice
I've only heard of a couple teams that have gotten I2C to work well (besides the accelerometer). What I would personally do is get an arduino and a CAN shield and read the sensors using I2C on arduino and then send the data over CAN. I am on a Formula SAE team and we are doing something similar to this and it works really well.

Also, Teensy 3.1 has CAN built in (minus a microchip for the i/o for CAN) and that has something like 22 analog ins, so if you are reading lots of sensors (like the Formula team I am on) you could use that to read sensors too.

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