DB (D-Sub) Connectors and COM Ports A serial port on a PC is a male 9-pin connector (DE-9 D-sub). Early PCs had two 9-pin connectors or one 9-pin and one 25-pin (DB-25). On a PC, serial ports are ...

What to do when you have a legacy serial device, but no serial port on the computer you want to connect? [vahidyou] designed a wireless serial dongle to solve this conundrum. Faced with a CNC that ...

While the average computer user likely hasn’t given much thought to the lowly serial port in decades, the same can’t be said for the hardware hacker. Cheap serial-to-USB adapters are ...

The simulation of a serial port in software in order to allow USB, Ethernet or some other input/output port to take its place. Virtual serial ports are necessary to enable an application that was ...