You just need the right USB adapters to make them work. One such adapter is the USB to serial converter, which is used for connecting various legacy devices to modern computers. The USB to serial ...

The common form of the USB to Serial adapter is an FTDI breakout board. This requires drivers, though, and there is actually a simpler – and wireless – solution: the ESP8266 WiFi module.

An Arduino mini pro provides the brains. A FT-232 USB to serial board is used to program the Arduino. A standard Bluetooth module has to have HID firmware installed. [Dastardly] makes a homemad ...

To get the generic USB serial driver to bind to the device, the USB vendor and product IDs need to be specified as a module parameter when the usbserial module is loaded. For example, to bind to the ...

In my last column [see LJ December 2002], we covered the serial layer in the 2.5 (hopefully soon to be 2.6) kernel tree. We mentioned in passing that a USB-to-serial driver layer in the kernel helps ...