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AVR Ethernet I/O board
14. October 2009 - 16:39 — adminThis is really great board: AVR Ethernet I/O board with 2x RS232, 2x USB connector, BW composite video, Real Time Clock with battery backup, PS/2 keyboard connector, Wiz810MJ ethernet module and LCD 16x2 display.
Photo: Ben Zijlstra
Bus Pirate 2 - the USB version
27. June 2009 - 15:57 — adminThe Bus Pirate is a universal bus interface that talks to most chips from a PC serial terminal, eliminating a ton of early prototyping effort when working with new or unknown chips. Now with USB capabilities in the version 2.
Bitlash
25. June 2009 - 18:38 — adminAn open source interpreted language shell for the Arduino serial port.
microUSB
23. June 2009 - 17:44 — adminA smart and small solution to connecting your devices with PC via USB.
Serial SRAM
22. January 2009 - 21:42 — adminMicrochip Technology Inc.announced a family of 8- and 32-Kbyte stand-alone serial SRAM devices, which increase a system’s available RAM memory by adding small, inexpensive external devices.
PICkit serial analyzer
5. September 2008 - 9:37 — adminThe PICkit Serial Analyzer is a low-cost USB-based tool used to direct communication between a PC and an external serial device.
RS-232 to TTL convertor
4. August 2008 - 12:43 — adminThis small realization, based on one of the most common IC (MAX232) is designed to create a small and convenient TTL to RS232 and vice versa convertor.
I2C EEPROM programmer
10. July 2008 - 14:40 — adminThis EEPROM programmer reads, writes and erases I²C 24C EEPROM devices through a PC serial port (RS-232) interface.
Small AVR-based TV terminal
22. May 2008 - 15:08 — adminTerminal with ATmega8, RS232 interface and TV out by Vasilis Serasidis.