[ale] USB to serial adapter

[Richard Bronosky]

In the arduino community we all use FTDI based units. They have great
platform support. You can even get the chip from sparkfun.com and
build your own.

On 8/26/09, david w. millians <millia at panix.com> wrote:
> James Taylor wrote:
>> I need to get my hands on a USB to serial adapter.
>> Does anyone where I can get one, preferably cheap to free?
>> -jt
>
> What everybody else said about quality. I have no idea about linux, but
> if you need anything mildly unusual to make it work- and a graphics
> tablet may not be- quality costs on windows. The device was one thing;
> the driver, and concomitant ability to change flow, parity, and all
> those other serial things that i've forgotten, thank goodness!, is
> another. The bargain basement one worked with gps; did not with an activ
> board. Perhaps it was the driver, perhaps it wasn't, but you couldn't
> change more than a smattering of things with it.
> The more expensive one did have a nice range of choices.
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