This is an introduction to the Virtual Serial Port Driver by Eltima Software. They have offered an opportunity to the ElectroSchematics team to put the software through its paces. T.K. Hareendran will ...

If you’re reading Hackaday, we’re willing to bet that if somebody asked you about a serial terminal, you’d immediately think about a piece of software — a tool you run on the computer to communicate ...

In the old days, if you wanted to snoop on a piece of serial gear, you probably had a serial monitor or, perhaps, an attachment for your scope or logic analyzer. Today, you can get cheap logic ...

I program microcontrollers which require a terminal connection through RS-232. I currently use HyperTerm under Windows. I'm aware of USB to RS-232 serial adapters, but I was wondering which terminal ...

A PC’s serial port provides signal lines that you can use to expand the number of input signals. With some additional circuitry tied to these lines, you can use the port to test digital TTL ...

I am going to be updating the firmware on a pallet of routers. This is not my usual gig, and the last time I would have done anything like this I'd have reached out for Hyper Terminal, but it's not in ...