Although serial port connections have been replaced by USB ports in most computers, older business equipment such as fax machines and printers may still utilize them. When a serial port stops ...

[Mike Lu] likes to add serial ports to his routers to use for debugging but he didn’t want to drill holes in his new RT-N12. After a bit of head-scratching he thought about repurposing the four unused ...

I know, RS-232 is not gone completely but in most things it has disappeared. Recently I bought a new laptop to use in my ham shack. I have several older accessories that use RS-232 and I had hoped to ...

Today, everything from your computer to your dryer has wireless communications built in, but devices weren’t always so unencumbered by wires. What to do when you have a legacy serial device, but no ...

virtual-serial-port.com – There has been a lot of issues on how to create serial ports. In this article we will outline the main softwares which create and control serial ports fully and easily.

This is an introduction to the Virtual Serial Port Driver by Eltima Software. They have offered an opportunity to the ElectroSchematics team to put the software through its paces. T.K. Hareendran will ...

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 ...

This is a long shot, I know, but you never know – maybe someone else has experience with these cash drawer systems.<BR><BR><B>THE PROBLEM</B><BR>In the middle of a small network overhaul, the client I ...

The circuit shown in Figure 1 provides a simple, low-power means of digitizing analog signals and sending the data directly to a PC's serial port where it can easily be read, analyzed, and stored. The ...