Since most of us are long past the days of hardware serial ports, the USB to serial adapter has become a mainstay on the hacker’s tool belt. While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to serial adapters ...

[Felipe Navarro] wanted to add a few serial ports to his computer, but couldn’t find an adapter that suited his needs. So, he built his own. His Quad Serial device is a nicely designed converter that ...

Developers, hobbyists and electronic enthusiasts searching for a optically isolated USB to Serial adapter may be interested in a new piece of open source hardware called the ZeptoBit Isolated USB-UART ...

For years now, we have been hearing about the benefits that legacy-free PCs are going to deliver. The average user wants less confusion in their PC as they try and connect additional new peripheral ...

I have a Palm, and I use it with a laptop that has no serial port. Now, I use the IR port to sync the data, but it is giving me all sorts of headaches lately.<br>The craddle I have only has a serial ...

Rugged self-powered unit brings USB to legacy devices and laptops The self-powered USB-COMi USB serial-port adapter can add an RS-422/485 Windows Serial Com port to a PC using the existing USB ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...