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 ...

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 ...

A new tool released on GitHub last week can help paranoid sysadmins keep track of whenever someone plugs in or disconnects an USB-based device from high-value workstations. Called USB Canary, this ...

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 ...