USB-C and even the USB-A are pretty well-known tech inputs, but what is a USB-B used for and do you even need one? Here's ...

[Felipe Navarro] wanted to add a few serial ports to his computer, but couldn’t find an adapter that suited his needs. So, he built his own. His Quad Serial device is a nicely designed converter that ...

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 ...

[Johan von Konow] found that he was using an FTDI USB-to-Serial chip in a lot of his projects and wanted to have an easy prototyping component on hand to facilitate this. What he came up with is the ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

Universal Serial Bus ports have increasingly become the go-to choice for connecting computer peripherals. The modular, high-speed architecture of USB allows for flexibility as well as scalability. An ...

i'm trying to buy a USB to RS-232 adapter for use with my M1 Mac Mini, but this is turning out to be a lot more complicated than i thought it would be. the most common devices seem to be based on ...

Somewhere, Christopher Walken is deliriously chanting “I gotta have more USB!” Yes, that’s right, 20 USB ports, and box headers for an additional four straight serial ports. Tom’s Hardware covered ...