The RP2350 has a few advantages over its predecessor, one of which is the ability to load firmware remotely via UART, as [Thomas Pfister] has documented on his blog and in the video below. [Thomas] ...

Serial port servers are admittedly old school technology that you might think had been phased out as new IT, SCADA and industrial control system equipment has been phased in. Metasploit creator HD ...

This morning I went to a fantastic talk called Hack All the Things. It was presented by GTVHacker. If you don’t recognize the name, this is the group that hacked the GoogleTV. They haven’t stopped ...

For years now, we have been hearing about the benefits that legacy-free PCs are going to deliver. The average user wants less confusion in their PC as they try and connect additional new peripheral ...

Alarmingly, these ports are often connected to modems or serial port servers for remote access to systems too: making for as many as 114,000 serial port servers out there that are accessible from the ...

Early microcontrollers had fixed I/O. It may have been possible to connect one of several internal peripherals to the I/O pins, but those pins were restricted and there was never an option of ...

Making your iPhone play nice with an ancient serial connection is a feat in itself—but a group of IT workers didn’t just do it to impress. Turns out, it’s incredibly useful to have access to the ...

The ARK Pixhawk Debug Adapter makes it simple to connect an STLink or J-Link to any board that follows the 6 or 10 pin Pixhawk Standard Debug Connector. J-Links and newer STLinks include a virtual COM ...

I need to do a serial port connection with a win98 or Xp Pro box. It is to connect to a Nortel Meridian phone system. My problem is that I cannot get the Serial COnnection on Com2 to come up as an ...