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

What to do when you have a legacy serial device, but no serial port on the computer you want to connect? [vahidyou] designed a wireless serial dongle to solve this conundrum. Faced with a CNC that ...

[Mike Lu] likes to add serial ports to his routers to use ... signals and still have the option of using that port for a network connection. The first step was to build the circuit to output ...

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

Both use serial transmission; however, the serial port connects the computer to one device, whereas a serial bus allows for the connection of multiple devices. See bus and PCI. THIS DEFINITION IS ...