Before USB ports became standard on PCs, several devices connected through a serial port. They're obsolete in many ways, but ...

Learn what a USB to Serial adapter is used for, when you might need one, and whether installing a driver is required for it ...

What he came up with is the extremely small USB to serial dongle seen above. The copper fingers are designed to plug into your USB port. And if you’ve got an unused thumb drive (we’ve got a ...

Above you can see [Hans’] creation next to the official Arduino USB-to-serial programmer ... board he assembled was too loose in the USB port, but he added some tape to the back to make it ...

Also known as an RS-232 port, serial ports provide very slow speeds and have been superseded by USB on desktop computers. USB-to-serial adapters are available for old peripherals. DB (D-Sub ...

Before the introduction of USB, electronics relied on various legacy connectors and protocols, such as serial ports, parallel ports, and FireWire. They often required specific drivers and ...

The simulation of a serial port in software in order to allow USB, Ethernet or some other input/output port to take its place. Virtual serial ports are necessary to enable an application that was ...