[Mike Lu] likes to add serial ports to his routers to use for debugging but he didn’t want to drill holes in his new RT-N12. After a bit of head-scratching he thought about repurposing the four unused ...

Connecting a computer running HyperTerminal emulator software to the console port of a router lets you access router information and modify settings without using the device's Web-based configuration ...

A socket that connects to a serial interface (one bit following another over one line). Serial ports are widely used by sensors for data acquisition, and they were standard on early computers for ...

I've got an old CF Flightstick Pro joystick with a 15 pin male connector, and I would like to connect it to my PC. The problem is I've only got a 9 pin male seriel port on my mobo, a MSI Neo2. Is this ...

Every so often, an engineer posts a question to the LabView or Vee e-mail user groups asking how to get keyboard entry data into a test application. Instrumentation software packages don't easily ...