... suspect that the simplest way is to use a USB based development board.<br/> <br/> The Arduino Uno (I think versions below will lack the necessary FTDI drivers) and its standard USB COM drivers will be picked up by LINUX offering a simple serial communications to the host. While I love the Arduino’s ...

... to a PIC or AVR micro (a cheap atmega8 can do >250Kb/s), and you have a good system. For more expansion you can use a USB to serial converter, the FTDI USB to serial converter has a maximum speed of between 1Mbaud and 3Mbuad.<br/> <br/> Basically use Rpi boards for the brains, use peripheral boards ...

... <br/> It's not an RS-232 in the traditional sense. It's more akin to a debug console port that exposes TTL serial to something that a 3.3v FTDI Serial to USB adapter would provide to someone.<br/> <br/> Will it be available or is it for debug purposes only ? Cause i was planning to use ...

... <br/> It's not an RS-232 in the traditional sense. It's more akin to a debug console port that exposes TTL serial to something that a 3.3v FTDI Serial to USB adapter would provide to someone.</t>

... 2011, 22:39<br/> If you want the former, you'll want what we've been talking about (which I do...even if it's just hooking to a pin header with FTDI's cable or a breakout board that hooks into the same). If you want what you're talking about...heh...those work right now out of box on ANY Linux ...

... port ?<br/> <br/> If you want the former, you'll want what we've been talking about (which I do...even if it's just hooking to a pin header with FTDI's cable or a breakout board that hooks into the same). If you want what you're talking about...heh...those work right now out of box on ANY Linux ...

There is a nice (but not exactly cheap) version from FTDI which has TTL on one side and USB on the other. So you can skip the RS232 converter and plug it straight in a Raspi. That is what we are using. Make sure you have the 3v3 version though.