Before USB ports became standard on PCs, several devices connected through a serial port. They're obsolete in many ways, but ...

Microsoft just announced the new 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop. I have not seen either new Windows 11 ...

What to do when you have a legacy serial device, but no serial port on the computer you want to connect? [vahidyou] designed a wireless serial dongle to solve this conundrum. Faced with a CNC that ...

Serial interfaces may have multiple lines, but only one line is used for data. The other lines are used for control. On earlier PCs, the serial port was a serial interface for attaching modems and ...

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 ...

A microcontroller (MCU or Microcontroller Unit) is a tiny computer fabricated on a single chip ... because even the old, most basic SPI interfaces are still in use. Serial Peripheral Interface has ...

In days past that might have been a parallel or serial port. Today it’s almost always ... Now we don’t have to worry about our laptop frying when we’re blowing up wires.

Weighing well under five pounds with surprisingly typical dimensions for a laptop, the Psion MC-400 ... That said, it does have a serial port so if you happen to have an old MC-400 laying around ...