Comments on: RS-232 USB madness

By: Ipsylon

Ipsylon — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:14:02 +0000

Very nice IC – I just requested samples.
Earlier I was using FT232BM but it is much more intergrated circuit (CP2101). In FT232BM projects it was need to use external oscillator and here if you request professional pcb boards you could put everything on USB plug :)

By: emulator

emulator — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:35:35 +0000

The new host works great – thank you!

By: timmeh

timmeh — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:04:22 +0000

instead of the cache which has no images, just go to where I rehosted the whole site.

http://muss.cis.mcmaster.ca/~bernast/index.html

By: ejonesss

ejonesss — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:59:41 +0000

i think a requirement to posting a hack is not to use the so called free hosting sites. or hack a day should host the images

By: HaX80r

HaX80r — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:48:16 +0000

Google's Cache grabbed it before the site's bandwidth maxed out.

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:Z3xLoVzS168J:www.timmeh.bravehost.com/+http://www.timmeh.bravehost.com/&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Serial ports rock. You can do _anything_ with them.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 21:38:56 +0000

this is more like it nice hack keep up the good work

By: Juan Cubillo

Juan Cubillo — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:10:54 +0000

Site is down due to “Account over bandwidth”

By: timmeh

timmeh — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:09:57 +0000

Lol you should have warned me... It'll cost $12 to get that site back up...

but instead how about this
https://muss.cis.mcmaster.ca/~bernast/index.html

shoulda used imageshack in the first place

By: Wolf

Wolf — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:25:45 +0000

hmm, I wonder if this method could be used on freescale’s accelerometers withough damadging them? what do you guys think?

By: nak

nak — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:56:22 +0000

Madness?
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THIS IS SPARTA!!

By: Pierre-Luc Bacon

Pierre-Luc Bacon — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 17:02:00 +0000

I've been using ft232 for the same purpose to add a console port on a Slug: http://pierreluc.aqra.ca/images/slug/00001.jpg

One could use it with no special tool for soldering.

By: meme

meme — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:45:29 +0000

Well, fieryluyngs, "somebody" already did:
http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp_usb.html
And if you didn't know it already, Thorsten Kloose's site is great anyways!
Cheers everybody.

By: fieryluyngs

fieryluyngs — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:45:01 +0000

That’s all well and good, now when is somebody going to make something like that for my older midi gear?

By: akmixdown

akmixdown — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:36:38 +0000

I’ve personally used the heat gun method to re-reflow boards which had become unstable, and htese were not low-pin-count devices either (256-ball MAPBGA, 90-ball VBGA and 64-pin EasyBGA parts) — I found the trick was to use a non-contact thermometer and aim it at the part you wanted to reflow, warm up the entire board and then center in on the part. I brought the surface temp up to about 230-250 degrees C and it seems to work very well. None of the 0603 parts or larger tantalum or electrolytic caps on the other side fell off, either, which was a bonus. :-)

By: Tobias

Tobias — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:19:24 +0000

I'd say that your better off by using a FT232R from FTDI ( http://ftdichip.com/Products/FT232R.htm ). It comes in a much more handy SOIC package which can be soldered more easily.