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My agent found the fault on my combine that a paid mechanic missed

A farmer's John Deere combine had an electronics fault for days and a paid Deere mechanic could not find it. Working with AI, he built a test suite that read the machine's CanBUS messages and the traces from his oscilloscope, and compared both against a second working combine. They found two faulty controllers and the machine runs again.

How it works

  1. The AI builds a CanBUS test suite using his USB adapter
  2. Suite runs while he works the machine
  3. The AI compares bus messages with oscilloscope traces and with the working combine
  4. Two faulty controllers found, one dragging the line down, one holding the bus hostage

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent read live signals off a combine harvester and reasoned about which controller was lying, work a paid mechanic had just failed at.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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