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Arduino serial communication with printer

I'm working on a project with an Arduino Mega 2560. I connected the board to a MAX232CPE in order to communicate in serial mode with a thermal printer. I connected the MAX232 to one of the 3 extra ...
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Getting weird characters in hyper-terminal on serial connection of PC and Atmega-16

I have a Atmega-16 based board, connected via Max232 to pins 2,3,5 of a db-9 connector. The connector connects to a PC. I am getting weird characters on hyper-terminal instead of normal "Hello World" ...
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serial driver for full 3.3v uC to back-of-computer

I'm looking for an integrated circuit that can connect a lpc17xx (microcontroller) to the serial port on the back of a standard computer. The lpc17xx has a UART controller with 8 pins. RXD TXD CTS DCD ...
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PIC18F + MAX232 USART Bizarreness

Okay, I've been struggling with this for weeks, and it's blowing my mind. I have been working with PICs for a long time, and I'm very confused as to why I can't make my USART work. First off, a few ...
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RS-232 Zero (-7V) drops when I connect db9 connectors

I'm interfacing with a system using RS-232. To communicate, I use MAX2322 for TTL <-> RS-232 to interface with PIC microcontroller and PL2303 for USB <-> RS-232 to interface with PC. All of the ...