From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: amadeus84@verizon.net (Amadeus W.M.) Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:05:58 +0000 (UTC) Subject: usb serial programming References: <20140721181828.GA9397@kroah.com> <5CA146A2-20F1-4A71-9E09-18DD66E7280D@aoc.nrao.edu> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 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.