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Simply put, Bimmer Development (bimmer.dev in short) is a non-profit organization, devoted to providing and expanding knowledge/resources on the technical features in BMW vehicles.
Bimmer.dev was started as a central location for specifications, references, and other technical information that we gradually reverse-engineer or otherwise acquire over time.
We're focused on the technical side of things: automotive networking and data protocols, like CAN, LIN-Bus, MOST, KWP-2000, OBD-II, K-Line, and infotainment systems. Some people refer to it as "Car Hacking", but we just like to call it Development
Until recently, these technologies were treated almost like they were 100% proprietary - the public had no access to documentation, tutorials, examples, or scripts to play around with.
We'd like to believe the manufacturers did this with safety in mind, but history has shown us that it's usually financial motivation that causes things like this to arise.
That being said: tampering with, modifying, and otherwise altering the vehicles communications networks in anything other than a strictly read-only manner, is extremely dangerous and should never be done on a vehicle that's driven on public roads. We encourage bench testing setups, and we're also huge fans of the local salvage yards
Since we're a fully open source community, we operate with complete transparency in the public realm of the internet. We also depend on contributions from readers like yourself to remain afloat: both financial contributions for costs / overhead, and (more significantly), contributions in code, documentation, peer reviews, and related open source stuff.
This page is far from complete, and is probably littered with errors, but that's what you get when writing copy in the wee morning hours of a Friday night, after a long week of work
— N. Berlette