Faced with a CNC that took instructions over serial port, and not wanting to deal with the cabling involved in a serial to USB adapter, [vahidyou] turned to an ESP8266 to let his computer and ...

He calls it the “lunchbox” computer due to its form factor, and while it doesn’t have USB it does have a tried-and-trusted serial port to communicate with other computers. [Ben] wrote up a ...

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 ...

Hubs plug into serial ports on the computer and provide four or more ports for peripherals. The peripherals themselves may also contain hubs. For example, a monitor may have a built-in USB hub in ...

Universal Serial Bus (USB) is the standard serial bus for low-to-medium speed ... Isolating voltage is the maximum voltage that the device can isolate at each port. Common features for serial data ...

Also known as an RS-232 port, serial ports provide very slow speeds and have been superseded by USB on desktop computers.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 ...