USB adapter for serial BOE?

Steve in NM

The situation is this: I want to give a serial BOE to a bright, young relative. His computer is new enough that he has no serial port. So I started looking at USB -> serial adapters. (RANT: I really wish there was a "standard" for the name of those things!) From the reviews, performance/operation seems to be hit or miss.

The questions·are this: Has anyone successfully gone down that path? Which adapter/converter/bridge are you using?


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Mike Green

There was another thread on this subject. You'll have to browse for the link unless someone else has it.

Pretty much any FTDI chip based adapter will work. Keyspan's High Speed Serial Adapter works. Personally, I either use Parallax's adapter or one of the ones directly from FTDI.

Steve in NM

Thanks, Mike. I should have, but I didn't even know Parallax had an offering!

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Mike Green

I must say that I'm unfavorably impressed with the number of times people ask questions here that are trivially answered by a simple web search. I understand that it's partly related to personal learning style and personality, but still ... Next time try the search box on Parallax's main web page and save the hard questions for the forum ... make us work!

Steve in NM

I fully understand your position on that.

Personally, I have great difficulty using the search engine here. Before posting I searched for "USB adapter", "USB converter", "Serial adapter", "Serial converter", "USB serial", ad nauseum... Each search·yielded in the same, unrelated result - one page - so it wasn't hard to evaluate.

What's more, I searched the store the other day for the "Piezo Film Vibra Tab Mass" (what a name!). I didn't find it until I searched only for the term "piezo." Go figure.

Sometimes it just feels like I'm holding my mouth wrong.

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Unsoundcode

Hi Steve , perhaps this is the thread Mike was refering to . http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=784398

Jeff T.

Steve in NM

Thanks, Jeff. Very helpful.

I think I'll stay with the Parallax since the odds are good that it will work universally.

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bill190

Here is my experience...

http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?p=898459

Get the Parallax USB to serial adapter is my advice. It works and you can't beat the price.