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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adafruit has unveiled a new addition to their range in the form of the Adafruit Metro Mini 328 that has been designed dot provide a USB-to-Serial connection. The Adafruit Metro Mini 328 takes the form ...

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 ...

Does anybody know if it's possible to use a USB-RS232 adapter on an iPhone? I know there are ssh clients, and various other console 'terminal emulation' type applications. The question is, can I ...

Serial ATA hard drive owners now no longer actually need a Serial ATA compatible computer to use their drives. Novac has introduced the “SATA HDD Connect Kit USB,” a cable for connecting naked 3.5″ ...

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 ...

Keyspan has updated its Mac OS X driver for the USB to serial adapters. Version 1.2 of the USB software fixes issues with the Classic environment crashing when quitting and some glitches with Global ...

Just because new computers no longer include the venerable serial port doesn’t mean it’s dead. In fact, the serial port is still thriving in many test instruments, industrial controls and medical ...