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From: amadeus84@verizon.net (Amadeus W.M.)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: usb serial programming
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:05:58 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2014.07.21.19.05.58@verizon.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5CA146A2-20F1-4A71-9E09-18DD66E7280D@aoc.nrao.edu

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:27:44 -0600, Bruce Rowen wrote:

> Assuming your camera is RS232, you can use a simple RS232 daughter card on the Raspberry (about $7 from MCM electronics and others).
> I have done this exact thing for communications with an old RS232 device.
> 
> Alternative is of course a USB to RS232 adapter and as Greg writes, you just change the target device file (the $7 adapter also creates a /dev/ttyxxx device.
> 
> -Bruce
> On Jul 21, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> 

Thank you, that's useful. This, you mean?

http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/83-15630

This one is for Arduino. I couldn't find one for Pi on the MSM site, but 
knowing what to search for lead me to a plethora of expansion cards for 
the RPi:

http://elinux.org/RPi_Expansion_Boards#RS232_to_TTL_converter

Thank you for the pointer.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-21 19:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-21  3:19 usb serial programming Amadeus W.M.
2014-07-21 18:18 ` Greg KH
2014-07-21 18:27   ` Bruce Rowen
2014-07-21 19:05     ` Amadeus W.M. [this message]
2014-07-21 19:42       ` Bruce Rowen
2014-07-21 18:55   ` Amadeus W.M.
2014-07-21 19:06     ` Greg KH
2014-07-21 19:25       ` Amadeus W.M.
2014-07-21 19:46         ` Greg KH
2014-07-23  0:26           ` Amadeus W.M.
2014-07-22  5:12 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2014-07-23  0:29   ` Amadeus W.M.

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