Archive for November, 2009

Serial to USB Adapter?

Friday, November 27th, 2009

I have been searching and all the adapters I have found are to convert USB ports to Serial ports. I want just the opposite. I want to convert the Serial port on my old 95' system to a USB port. A link to a product on Amazon ,Yahoo, or Ebay ...

USB to Serial adapter not detecting modem?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

I have just upgraded my PC and realised it hasn't got a serial port to connect my fax modem to. I have purchased a usb to serial adapter from ebay, it's the usual unbranded chineese style, with the only name saying HL on the packet. It seems to install itself, saying its ...

DUX project

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

The main goal oft his project was to connect an old Dendy (Russian modification of SNES) joystick to a PC over USB. I decided not to use any of known adapters. I created the whole new PCB instead, adding an ATMega8 microcontroller which runs USB software implementation from http://obdev.at . ...

Interesting USB To I2C Bridge Project

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

[caption id="attachment_261" align="alignright" width="200" caption="i2c usb project board"][/caption] Here is and interesting FTDI project blog involving interfacing an IO board from a pc using rs232 to i2c conversion. It involves the FT2232D chip of the new FTDI USB generation. The fellow tried to order a development kit but his order never ...

I have a usb to serial port adapter, but can not find the installation CD. How can I get a driver for it?

Monday, November 16th, 2009

I can not tell who made it. I have had it for a few years and changed computers. It will not work on my new computer. First line of the detail section read "I can not tell who makes it." Therefore I could not post the make and model That is ...