Viswa wrote to us about the USB-to-UART CP2104-MINIEK (mini evaluation kit) from Silicon Labs available for $5.
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Viswa wrote to us about the USB-to-UART CP2104-MINIEK (mini evaluation kit) from Silicon Labs available for $5.
Via the contact form.
How does this compare to the FTDI USB to Serial devices? They look really cheap…
Should be worth noting that the cheapest shipping (at least for me in California) is $26.00.
And of course you don’t find out how much it is until you’ve given up all your personal information / email etc.
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Oops! Thanks for letting the rest of us know, anyway!
Seems hardly worth the bother when USB-UART devices are available for $2 (including shipping) from ebay. You can get either CP2102 or PL2303HX at that price. Maybe they are knockoff clones, but they work for me.
You can buy it from Mouser and use the economy shipping. I think it’s $5.
As of right now, mouser has 77 in stock for $5. Definitely worth adding to my next order. Seems way nicer than one of those crappy ebay fake PL2303HX adapters.
The ‘crappy’ pl2303 adapters will do 6mbps.
http://nerdralph.blogspot.ca/2014/05/high-speed-uart-pumping-out-data-at.html
Are they still not releasing the Android device driver? I have several devices I’d love to interface to my phone but cannot because SL won’t let “just anyone” have the driver.
Eh? It’s nicely packaged and all, but you can get the same by buying a chinese USB to RS232 for $3 shipped:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/1PCS-CP2104-Serial-Converter-USB-2-0-To-TTL-UART-6PIN-Module-Replace-Compatible-CP2102-module/1127054200.html
I checked the site too, its $26 to ship to NY as well. So it doesn’t seem to matter where in the country you are in shipping cost.
nice thing about CP2104 is it can go down to 1.8V Vio, you can use it to debug modern arm socs without level shifting
I got mine for 3 bucks with free shipping from china, downside is its hardwired for 3.3V Vio, needs 10 minutes with a heat gun to rewire, and its missing usb clamping diodes