This document summarizes a project to study data acquisition using the CAN protocol. The objectives included studying power supply design, the CAN protocol, node concepts, types of analog-to-digital converters and sensors, signal conditioning circuits, real-time clock usage, CAN transceivers, terminating resistors, and the PIC18F458 microcontroller's CAN engine. Hardware used included an ORCAD schematic design tool, PCB layout tools, a power supply, microcontroller, transceiver, ultrasonic and temperature sensors. Software included MPLAB IDE and a PIC programmer. The document describes the power supply, daughter board, mother board schematics and block diagrams. It concludes that temperature and ultrasonic sensor data was successfully