Hackaday

Monitor A Serial Port From Anywhere

This simple WiFi serial port monitor would have saved us a lot of trouble. We can’t count how many times where being hooked into an Arduino with USB just to get the serial out has nearly been more ...
Hackaday

Windows Utility Helps ID Serial Ports

The humble serial interface has been around for a very long time, and will stay with us in one form or other for the foreseeable future. It was easy enough to keep track of back in the days when a ...
EDN

An Introduction of the Virtual Serial Port Driver by Eltima Software

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 ...
Forbes

Researcher's Serial Port Scans Find More Than 100,000 Hackable Devices, Including Traffic Lights And Fuel Pumps

You probably remember serial ports as the ancient nine-pin plugs you once used to hook up your mouse or joystick to your computer in the pre-USB dark ages. But tracking down devices that still use ...
Ars Technica

Serial port vga output? There's no Way!

Your friend is mistaken. This serial port he is talking about is called "CGA" and closely resembles a serial port. However it still requires a graphics card and a monitor! You can convert a CGA signal ...
Ars Technica

[C#] Serial port programming -- low-level reverse engineering challenge.

I have a bunch of Kenwood TK-2100 VHF radios that are re-programmable via the serial port. I have a DOS-based application that works with the radios, but is only reliable with computers with two (2) ...