Over the last two weeks I published an article reference the USB to serial converter see Project Usb to serial converter http://edn.com/project/mark_harrington/usb-to ...

We still have lots of things that have serial interfaces on them, switches, mangement modules, etc. But we're all out of things that have serial ports. Even the servers who's management modules have a ...

Add or Remove Programs entry for FTDI USB Serial Converter Drivers. This is a driver pack that allows USB ports to be used to connect to Serial bus devices with a USB - Serial adapter cable.

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...

Debugging with printf is something [StorePeter] has always found super handy, and as a result he’s always been interested in tweaking the process for improvements. This kind of debugging usually has ...

It turns out that hacking together a security keypad is remarkably simple if you know what you’re doing. [Don] needed to add a keypad with an RFID reader on it. He had previously built a USB RFID ...