Microcontroller dev boards are wonderfully useful items, in testament to which most of us maintain an ample collection of the things. But dragging one out to do a simple job can be a pain, what with ...

CAEN RFID announced availability of its newest addition to the easy2read family with the ultra high frequency desktop Slate RFID reader. It features integrated circular polarized antenna for short to ...

This article was originally published by RFID Update. August 12, 2008—The new USB Stick from iDTRONIC Electronic Identification gives any device with a USB port, including laptops, PCs and printers, ...

FTDI are a company known for producing chips for USB applications. Most of us have a few USB-to serial adapters kicking about, and the vast majority of them run on FTDI hardware (or, if we’re honest, ...

RFID technology gets mixed press thanks to its useful/creepy remote-distance object identification, but a new device–Mirror–may change all that. It’s a cute, potentially useful gadget, and actually ...

I have a bunch of serial devices that I need to communicate with. Some of them are connected to native serial ports, and some have USB->RS232 adapters. I am communicating to them via the serial port ...