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ModernDevice USB BUB — Review

June 6th, 2009

For uploading to “home made Arduinos” or other boards not equipped with an USB/TTL-serial converter chip like the Boarduino, there’s a few adapters out there. One of which is the standard FTDI USB/TTL-serial cable, which costs 20$ in the USA and more than 20€ in Europe (that’s the usual rip-off, as 20$ ~ 14€). Sparkfun [...]

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Getting auto reset to work with FTDI cables on Linux (MAC)

May 2nd, 2009

Before you start, make sure you have the perl module Device::SerialPort installed ! On Debian based systems, you can easily do that by typing:

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sudo apt-get install libdevice-serialport-perl

If it doesn’t work or you’re on a different flavour of linux, you can still use CPAN to pull in that module:

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sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Device::SerialPort
exit

You may have [...]

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