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 know, you’ve already got a USB to serial adapter. Probably several of them, in fact. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t use one more — especially when it’s as as cleverly designed as this one from ...

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 ...

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 ...

How many watts can a USB port actually output? The answer depends on your cable and protocol. Here is the ultimate guide to ...

A device that adds a serial port to a computer. It plugs into the USB port and contains one or more serial port sockets. See serial port. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other ...

After connecting a device with a serial port with the computer via the Prolific PL2303 cable, some users have received the following error message: Please install the ...

At the heart of the ESP-01 module is the ESP8266 chip with at least two boot modes — the normal mode and the programming/flash mode. The latter refers to uploading any software (or firmware) to the ...

Some businesses require serial numbers for all USB devices attached to their network. The Window Device Manager console displays a list of all your USB peripherals and provides you with detailed ...

USB-C and other high-speed protocols can push data to warp speeds. Here’s how to make the most of the current standards and what lies ahead. Now that you’re used to seeing co-workers, family, and ...