[Swansea Hackspace] USB to serial

[David Davies-Day]

Not sure about the mac drivers etc but on my UNO that has the reprogrammable usb chip, I removed the atmega 328 and connected it up to a pro-mini (of course selected pro-mini as the board in arduino ide) and it worked fine as a a USB serial, also watched a Ben Heck video where he used  an UNO without its chip to to etst a serial output keyboard, a reflashed xbox360 chatpad to be more precise.

 

In short, if you have an UNO you don't really need a sepparate usb serial.
 

> From: justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
> To: hackspace at swansea.hackspace.org.uk
> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:38:31 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] USB to serial
> 
> On Thu, 2014-07-10 at 13:33 +0100, Ian Bullfrog wrote:
> > ELo All,
> > does anyone have a USB (PC side) to a serial port (freaky device side)
> > adapter for a Mac, and drivers for Mac OS X Snow leopard? or such like?
> > 
> > just to see what I can get to work with my Mac and not having to fire up 
> > a windows box, and then see what software I can find for micro work etc 
> > on the mac.
> 
> CP2102 or PL2303 are the cheapest ones,
> FTDI are supposedly better, but more expensive.
> 
> they cost from about £1.50 each on ebay, depending on how which model
> and how long your willing to wait. generically listed as 'USB to TTL'
> 
> I used to bundle them with the electronics starter kit, i will have to
> rummage and see if i have any left i can sell on and bring/send to
> mondays meeting.
> 
> 
> 
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