[Johan von Konow] found that he was using an FTDI USB-to-Serial chip in a lot of his projects and wanted to have an easy prototyping component on hand to facilitate this. What he came up with is the ...

To say that the RTL-SDR project was revolutionary might be something of an understatement. Taking a cheap little USB gadget and using it as a Software Defined Radio (SDR) to explore the radio spectrum ...

Microchip’s USB PD dual-charging-port reference board demos digitally controlled smart charging applications for different ...

USB-C and even the USB-A are pretty well-known tech inputs, but what is a USB-B used for and do you even need one? Here's ...

From flagship phones to budget laptops and even handheld gaming consoles, the same small oval port now stares back at you ...

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 ...

I've got a Keyspan unit now, but I'm getting tired of fsck'ing around getting the drivers to work in Ubuntu. What do other folks use for USB to serial converters? Poking around in the kernel source ...

I recently schmoozed my manager into approving a nice 15" Powerbook, and I'm finding I miss my serial ports. Does anybody have experience with a good USB serial adapter with OSX drivers? I'm eyeing ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

Keyspan plans to use next week’s Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco, Calif. to debut a new USB-based 4 port serial adapter for the Macintosh. The device enables up to four serial ...