At one time Motorola (now Freescale Semiconductor) produced a CMOS addressable asynchronous receiver/transmitter AART (MC14469) that operated much like a stand-alone UART. This device received ...

A PLC or programmable logic controller is a type of computer often employed to monitor and control industrial manufacturing operations. The device, which you may see referred to as a programmable ...

We use the Raritan KSX serial "KVM". It works well enough, although we did have a problem initially with cables for devices that use an RJ-45 connector rather than DB-9 (like that for the NetApp).

A serial connection is probably not the first port that sprang to mind while bemoaning Apple's shortage of socket options on iOS devices, but that's just what Southern Stars and Redpark are offering.

Anyone who shops for robotics kits would have come across a few designed by Lynxmotion. They’ve been helping people build robots since 1995, from robot arm kits to hexapod chassis and everything in ...

One thing's for sure; we are past the heyday of the motion controller as backplane-expansion card with field wiring. There are two main reasons. First is the trouble of finding a consistent source of ...

Linking an injection machine with its temperature control just got a lot easier with the latest configuration option from Wittmann Robot Systeme GmbH (Groß-Umstadt, Germany). The serial machine ...