Meggy serial cable
posted Jan 21st 2009 1:52pm by Caleb Kraftfiled under: arduino hacks, handhelds hacks
We thought the Meggy had some serious potential. The open serial port is ripe for the plucking, but has thus far been fairly unused. Here’s directions on how to make your own serial cable capable of connecting two Meggies. Basically, it is just modifying an audio cable, used to connect CDROMs to the motherboard. The cool thing about this is that the resulting crossover cable should work on any Arduino that is programmed via an FTDI cable.
On the one hand, it’s a good tutorial, complete with photos. On the other hand, it’s just a simple crossover cable! Do we even need photos for this, much less a full tutorial? It seems that the diagram alone is sufficient…