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

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 ...

I have a Palm, and I use it with a laptop that has no serial port. Now, I use the IR port to sync the data, but it is giving me all sorts of headaches lately.<br>The craddle I have only has a serial ...

A few weeks ago, I was working on a small project of mine, and I faced a rather large problem. I had to program nearly five hundred badges in a week. I needed a small programming adapter that would ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

The easiest way to connect computer peripherals is through a Universal Serial Bus (USB). The USB is a plug-and-play interface between the PC and the peripherals. The main advantage of USB is that the ...

I have a USB Type-C cable—yeah, the reversible one. I can’t connect it to anything I own yet, but it’s a real thing that’s in production and shipping to companies. Most of CES amounts to so much smoke ...