Two ports not enough for your parallel hacking needs? Believe it or not, we’ve also seen a quad USB-to-serial adapter that you can put together, though it’s a considerably more complex circuit.

The open source HIDman adapter debuts, for interfacing modern USB peripherals with old PCs by emulating classic PS/2 ...

Each year millions of old smartphones are either tossed as e-waste or are condemned to lie unloved in dusty drawers, despite the hardware in them usually being still perfectly fine. Reusing these ...

With so many features and so many cables, we’ve been doomed to a see if it works approach to getting our devices correctly connected.

Then there are desktop and USB-stick DACs, both typically affordable and easy-to-use solutions to maximise your laptop or PC's sound, or again be used with a phone (via a dongle adapter, if necessary) ...

So I tried some other examples like usb_serial or the qs_adventure and still nothing works ... because there are different drivers for the other examples, I wondered whats wrong ... and then I think ...

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External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your ...

Converters can be mounted on DIN rails, PCBs, walls, cabinets, and more, and they need to be connected to host systems using interfaces like RS232, RS422, RS485, USB, and others Some sensors, such as ...

This design idea uses asynchronous RS232 to power and count pulses from a simple 10 kHz voltage-to-frequency converter.

Perhaps, not widely known by PC users, there is an option to boot from a USB drive within a running Windows OS installation. If Fast Boot is enabled in UEFI/BIOS, you may not be able to boot from ...

The Apple USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter is there for anyone who needs to have all Apple products. It's pretty good, to be fair, thanks to being lightweight and matching the tone of all things ...