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+# SavvyCAN
+QT based cross platform canbus tool 
+(C) 2015 EVTV and Collin Kidder
+
+A QT5 based cross platform tool which can be used to load, save, and capture canbus frames.
+This tool is designed to help with visualization, reverse engineering, debugging, and
+capturing of canbus frames.
+
+Currently canbus capture requires a CANDue board from EVTV:
+(http://store.evtv.me/proddetail.php?prod=ArduinoDueCANBUS&cat=23)
+
+The CANDue board must be running the GVRET firmware which can also be found
+within the collin80 repos.
+