Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 00:16:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Cool device Message-ID: <20060513.001641.78708336.imp@bsdimp.com>
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If you are hacking a device that has 3.3V TTL serial signals, then I'd love to recommend http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=28024 you can plug it into the headers on most boards, since it has a good pinout. Here's the blurb from the parallax page: The Parallax USB2SER device is a mini development tool based on the FTDI232BM USB to Serial UART interface chip. Parallax created this development tool in order to provide microcontroller developers (like our BASIC Stamp customers) to have easy access to a PC's USB port using the FTDI virtual device drivers. And FreeBSD's uftdi supports it great. I've been using it to flash my Atmel AT91RM9200 eval board (and our company's custom board). For $30 it beats soldering the MAX232ish part and dealing with all that. I plug it into the headers, and it just works... Enjoy Warner
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