Since most of us are long past the days of hardware serial ports, the USB to serial adapter has become a mainstay on the hacker’s tool belt. While they’re cheap and convenient, USB to serial adapters ...

[Felipe Navarro] wanted to add a few serial ports to his computer, but couldn’t find an adapter that suited his needs. So, he built his own. His Quad Serial device is a nicely designed converter that ...

C, and USB Type-B ports all provide data transfers and power delivery, though the latter is much less common on modern ...

Some software and specialty hardware requires you to use a traditional serial port. Serial ports have been around for decades and work by transferring one bit of data at a time at a relatively slow ...

How many watts can a USB port actually output? The answer depends on your cable and protocol. Here is the ultimate guide to ...

To identify the specific USB ports and connectors on your devices, you can simply look at their shape and color, or check ...

Without some good means of input and output, a computer makes a pretty good doorstop or boat anchor. Once we start plugging things into a computer, however, it can receive data and instructions, ...

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 ...

The back of your PC is a rich source of connectivity. Ports and connectors exist for just about any device you can find, though some may be more obscure than others. In today’s USB-centric PC, it’s ...

USB, short for Universal Serial Bus, powers most of your gadgets, smartphones and headphones. But as USB standards have evolved over time, this has often lead to some confusion among users. Currently, ...

I have a USB Type-C cable—yeah, the reversible one. I can’t connect it to anything I own yet, but it’s a real thing that’s in production and shipping to companies. Most of CES amounts to so much smoke ...