Cables / USB Cables / USB to Serial Adapter
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Adafruit FT232H Breakout - General Purpose USB to GPIO, SPI, I2C - USB C & Stemma QT
Product ID: 2264Wouldn't it be cool to drive a tiny OLED display, read a color sensor, or even just flash some LEDs directly from your computer? Sure you can program an Arduino or Trinket to talk to these devices and your computer, but why can't your computer just talk to those devices and sensors itself? Well, now your computer can talk to devices using the Adafruit FT232H breakout...$14.95In stock -
USB to TTL Serial Cable - Debug / Console Cable for Raspberry Pi
Product ID: 954The cable is easiest way ever to connect to your microcontroller/Raspberry Pi/WiFi router serial console port. Inside the big USB plug is a USBSerial conversion chip and at the end of the 36" cable are four wire - red power, black ground, white RX into USB port, and green TX out of the USB port. The power pin provides the 5V @ 500mA direct from the USB port and the...$9.95In stock -
Adafruit CP2102N Friend - USB to Serial Converter
Product ID: 5335Long gone are the days of parallel ports and serial ports. Now the USB port reigns supreme! But USB is hard, and you just want to transfer your every-day serial data from a microcontroller to computer. What now? Enter the Adafruit CP2102N Friend! The CP2102N is very similar to the CP2104. Despite having a name with a lower number, its actually considered the...$5.95In stock -
FTDI Serial TTL-232 USB Cable
Product ID: 70Just about all electronics use TTL serial for debugging, bootloading, programming, serial output, etc. But it's rare for a computer to have a serial port anymore. This is a USB to TTL serial cable, with a FTDI FT232RL usb/serial chip embedded in the head. It has a 6-pin socket at the end with 5V power and ground, as well as RX, TX, RTS and CTS at 3V logic levels....$19.95In stock -
Adafruit UPDI Friend - USB Serial UPDI Programmer
Product ID: 5879UPDI stands for Unified Program and Debug Interface, but this board is so smol and cute that we will call it the Unusually Playful Device Interfacer and pat its head when it does a good job. It's designed to make programming modern ATtiny chips very easy because it has 3V or 5V power and logic select, power and transmit indicator LEDs, and a quick cable for poking...$6.95In stock -
FTDI Serial TTL-232 USB Type C Cable - 3V Power and Logic
Product ID: 4331Just about all electronics use a UART serial port with RX and TX pins for debugging, bootloading, programming, serial output, etc. But it's rare for a computer to have a serial port anymore. Thus, a serial cable is an essential part of any electrical engineer's toolkit. This is a USB C to TTL serial cable with an FTDI FT232R usb/serial chip embedded in the head. It...$19.95In stock -
USB to Multi-Protocol Serial Cable - RS-232 / TTL UART / RS-485
Product ID: 5994No matter what serial-esque protocol you need to interface with, this USB to Multi-Protocol Serial adapter cable will be able to get this-connected-to-that. It supports RS232 serial, TTL UART serial, RS485 and RS422. All with quick-connecting screw terminals so you don't need to do any soldering or use special cables. Just plug directly into a computer's USB A or C...$24.95In stock -
USB to Multi-Protocol Serial Adapter: RS-232 / TTL UART / RS-485
Product ID: 5995No matter what serial-esque protocol you need to interface with, this USB to Multi-Protocol Serial adapter will be able to get this-connected-to-that. It supports RS232 serial, TTL UART serial, RS485 and RS422. All with quick-connecting screw terminals so you don't need to do any soldering or use special cables. Just plug directly into a computer's USB A port and use...$21.95In stock -
FTDI Friend with Micro USB Port + extras - v3
Product ID: 284Long gone are the days of parallel ports and serial ports. Now the USB port reigns supreme! But USB is hard, and you just want to transfer your every-day serial data from a microcontroller to computer. What now? Enter the FTDI Friend! The FTDI Friend is a tweaked out FTDI FT232RL chip adapter. Sure, like the well-known FTDI cable, it can provide power to your project...$14.75In stock -
Adafruit High Voltage UPDI Friend - USB Serial UPDI Programmer
Product ID: 5893UPDI stands for Unified Program and Debug Interface, but this board is so smol and cute that we will call it the Unusually Playful Device Interfacer and pat its head when it does a good job. It's designed to make programming modern ATtiny chips very easy because it has 3V or 5V power and logic select, power, and transmit indicator LEDs, and a quick cable for poking...$9.9537 in stock -
Adafruit PiUART - USB Console and Power Add-on for Raspberry Pi
Product ID: 3589Here's another super handy add-on for your Raspberry Pi computer, perfect for 'head-less' setups! The PiUART adds a USB Type-C to serial connection so you can use any serial port software to connect to the Pi's console. It plugs in and is fast and easy to add whenever you need to connect to your Pi. Two LEDs connect to RX and TX on the serial converter chip so you...$6.9520 in stock -
FTDI Serial TTL-232 USB Type C Cable - 5V Power / 3.3V Logic
Product ID: 4364Just about all electronics use a UART serial port with RX and TX pins for debugging, bootloading, programming, serial output, etc. But it's rare for a computer to have a serial port anymore. Thus, a serial cable is an essential part of any electrical engineer's toolkit. This is a USB C to TTL serial cable with an FTDI FT232R usb/serial chip embedded in the head. It...$19.95In stock -
Adafruit WCH CH9102F Friend - USB to Serial Converter
Product ID: 5568Long gone are the days of parallel ports and serial ports. Now the USB port reigns supreme! But USB is hard, and you just want to transfer your everyday serial data from a microcontroller to computer. What now? Enter the Adafruit CH9102F Friend, a version of our popular USB-Serial 'friend' breakouts that uses the affordable (and available) CH9102F - a 'near...$4.9517 in stock -
USB Type C to DB-9 Adapter Cable - 1.5m long
Product ID: 5446This USB Type C cable adds a DB-9 (DE-9) serial port to your computer or laptop. Works with MacOS X, Linux, and Windows. Note that this provides (approximately) +-6V serial (RS232) not 5V serial (TTL), good for old devices like GPS, handhelds, programmers, etc with chunky DB9's on the side. Some cheaper RS232 cables 'cheat' and only give you 0-5V which won't work...$17.50In stock -
Adafruit CP2105 Friend - USB to Dual UART Serial Converters
Product ID: 6065On our first Pentium 120 tower (purchased at PCs for Everyone on Thorndike st in Cambridge Mass) came with two DE-9 serial ports on the back: COM1 and COM2. Perfect for connecting a mouse and maybe a modem. Nowadays, long gone are the days of parallel ports and serial ports. Now the USB port reigns supreme! But USB is hard, and you just want to transfer your...Coming soon