Brian Dorey made this DIY USB to RS485 adapter, that is available at Github: We looked for a full-duplex ready-made adapter but all the ones we found are only half duplex devices and as we needed to be able to supply 12 volts via the RJ45 connectors on the slave boards we decided to make our […]
Tag Archives: FT230X
FT230X charger detection investigation
Baoshi writes: I bought some FT230X (FT230XS) USB-USART bridge chip recently for a new design. FT230X is not only cheaper than the traditional FT232RL, but also offers a new fancy “USB charger detection” function. This interests me because I’m quickly running out of desk space and power socket. I wish the new device to be […]
Workshop Update for May 30th, 2012
Today we submitted one talk and two poster proposals to the Open Hardware Summit. We’ll post those, including an idea we didn’t submit, tomorrow. A big box of PCBs from Seeed Studio’s Fusion PCB service came while we were away, today we grabbed them at the post office. We continue to develop the Part Ninja […]