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

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

Electronic enthusiasts looking for a USB to isolate a variety of different Serial interfaces may be interested in Ollie. Designed to provide an isolated ...

USB ports have quietly turned into the default power outlet for phones, laptops, headphones, and even monitors, but the ...

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 ...

There’s still plenty of useful hardware out there that uses an RS-232 interface, like the Behringer Ultradrive loudspeaker systems that [Lasse Lukkari] works with from time to time. Rather than ditch ...

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

If you’re using an AVR microcontroller and you’d like to add USB to a project, there are a lot of options out there for you. Both LUFA and V-USB add some USB functionality to just about every AVR ...

USB Type-C is the newly introduced and powerful interconnect standard for USB. When paired with the new Power Delivery (PD) specification, Type-C offers enhancements to the existing USB 3.1 ...

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 ...

I have two devices; TV SLM (Signal Level Meter) & 2 Uniden radio Scanners that use a USB connection for programming & F/W updates etc. When I try to loads the drivers for either I get errors or the ...