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Arduino and FTDI Communications

Short Version Can I make a serial connection from an Arduino to a device with an FTDI connector? Long Version I have a wifi shield for an Arduino that is misbehaving. I know their is an FTDI ...
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Application of buffer chip in serial communication

On a microcontroller board that I am working on, there is a buffer chip between the microcontroller TI msp430 F1611 and USB interface ...
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FTDI Chip to Serial port

I am wondering if I have the right idea. I need to connect my computer to my servers serial port for some debugging, I have no other computers that have serial ports but I have FTDI serial boards for ...
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Connect a light sensor to PC

I want to connect a light sensor to my PC ( serial or usb ) and read the values of that sensor. Is there a way i can do this without a microcontoller? I am looking into the cheapest method of ...
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Serial brick camera

I bought this serial electronic brick camera from Robot shop recently. I connected it to a Spark Fun FT232R shield. I am able to open my virtual COM port but I am not able to capture any images. This ...
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Monitoring two serial lines at the same time

First this is the setup: (please note that one of the grounds is not connected, both FTDIs working properly) Now, I have used PuTTY to look at these two serial streams, both exchanging data at 9600 ...
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Serial newbie: why can't I just hook the wires up?

I'm trying to transmit from an ATtiny85 to a PC using Arduino-esque code over a USB-Serial converter without understanding very much of anything. I was shocked and appalled that it did not work. I ...