Your TV's RS-232 port is a seriously useful automation tool - how to unlock its full potential ...

An image showing the input panel on the back of a tv panel - Piotr Wytrazek/Shutterstock The RS-232, or Recommended Standard 232, is a serial communication protocol introduced in 1960 by the ...

You might have a nine-pin port on the back of your TV, known as an RS-232 serial port, or sometimes just a serial port. This same type of port is commonly used to connect a computer to a printer, but ...

The project illustrates the use of bit-banging on a 12F683 device by the PS/2 interface which can come from the mouse or keyboard with the other side of PCB having RS232 serial interface while being ...

When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 ...

I know, RS-232 is not gone completely but in most things it has disappeared. Recently I bought a new laptop to use in my ham shack. I have several older accessories that use RS-232 and I had hoped to ...

When did you last buy a mouse? Did it have a little adapter in the box? There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also an adapter to allow it to be used with the older PS/2 ...

Before 2000, desktop printers for business had one of two interfaces: serial and parallel. The type of interface dictated the type of cable you used to connect the printer to the PC and how fast the ...

An infrared transmit and receive interface has been converted to an RS232 serial interface on this project with the use of a microchip PIC microcontroller. A sequence of bits modulated as a series of ...

A data channel that transfers digital data in a serial fashion: one bit after the other over one wire or fiber. Serial interfaces may have multiple lines, but only one line is used for data. The other ...

???<BR><BR>I have a propriatery RS232 device that I need to connect to a computer that has no serial ports (newer laptop). The hardware has a dongle incorporated into the cable to unlock the software ...