{"id":58898,"date":"2025-06-27T15:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/so-you-can-turn-an-entire-car-into-a-video-game-controller\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:27:12","slug":"so-you-can-turn-an-entire-car-into-a-video-game-controller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/so-you-can-turn-an-entire-car-into-a-video-game-controller\/","title":{"rendered":"So you CAN turn an entire car into a video game controller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity nerds figured out a way to make those at-home racing simulators even more realistic by turning an actual car into a game controller.<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s Pen Test Partners (PTP) has an in-house car that&#8217;s used for various automotive security research. They thought that their 2016 Renault Clio, which they bought from a dealership down the road from PTP&#8217;s HQ, could be a &#8220;silly&#8221; way of showing aspiring security pros how to work with car data.<\/p>\n<p>Controller Area Network (CAN) data is sent between vehicles and other devices via electronic control units (ECUs) and is what&#8217;s used to signal different operations being engaged, like braking and accelerating.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>As such, anyone who wants to tinker with cybersecurity in the automotive space for a living must have a strong understanding of how to collect and manipulate CAN data, and who doesn&#8217;t love gamified learning?<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a 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href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It was by isolating those <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2023\/04\/06\/can_injection_attack_car_theft\/\">CAN data<\/a> signals sent to initialize the Clio&#8217;s brakes, steering, and acceleration that the PTP experts were able to map those controls to SuperTuxKart, a FOSS Mario Kart-like game, using <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/11\/05\/python_dethrones_javascript_github\/\">Python<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Resident hardware hacker David Lodge said he used a cheap wire splicer on the CAN wires before trying to decode the data, and which messages sent by the Clio&#8217;s functions should be isolated.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>It required some diligent searching through documentation, using open source Clio-code-deciphering tools, and simply pressing pedals and turning the steering wheel to see which arbitration IDs corresponded to the controls that needed to be mapped.<\/p>\n<p>Lodge <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pentestpartners.com\/security-blog\/how-we-turned-a-real-car-into-a-mario-kart-controller-by-intercepting-can-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>: &#8220;Once you get the electrical state right and know the bus speed (which I used a Kvaser Leaf Pro for), a standard CAN packet consists of an 11-bit arbitration ID, 8 octets of data, and a selection of flags and metadata about the packet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because CAN packets are so small (8 octet payload) and there are only a small number of arbitration IDs (0x800, or 2048 in decimal), and smaller arbitration IDs have a higher priority, often messages go down to specific bits within the packet. Several CAN database formats refer to the packet as a stream of bits rather than using octets, but my mind works in octets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Armed with the data needed to translate the CAN signals into video game controller input, Lodge found that a simple Python input device wasn&#8217;t cutting it. The steering wheel was executing far too many up-down-left-right button presses, leading to delayed in-game response.<\/p>\n<p>He settled on re-architecting the CAN bus, changing it from injecting a key press to updating a state machine using the CAN data.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_offbeat\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33aGHUHJRdo6uMpfE1AaAyxAAAARU&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Brakes were easy, since these are essentially on\/off functions, but steering caused some issues. This was largely because the Clio wasn&#8217;t moving, which meant those who tried to steer as much in-game as they would on a real race track would be wearing down the tires on the exhibition floor. Making the steering threshold small fixed this to a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Lodge was unable to map a Clio button to use in-game items like bananas and speed boosts, which he dreamed of launching using the Clio&#8217;s horn, but the button does not transmit signals using CAN data.<\/p>\n<p>A short deadline meant he didn&#8217;t link up the car&#8217;s speedometer, but with a longer lead time he said it could be done by sending messages to the Clio&#8217;s instrument cluster.<\/p>\n<p>Swatting away draining batteries, frequent system crashes, and the Clio&#8217;s engine automatically switching off after five minutes, the team was able to get some good demonstrations in, as you can briefly see in a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1JOVjMihd0k&amp;ab_channel=Pen%20Test%20Partners\" rel=\"nofollow\">video of the project<\/a>. \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a 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