It’s why I tend to use the 32U4 or the like. I have a programmer but if I use a USB to Serial, the damn Windows box keeps assigning an ever higher vitual port number with each connect.

It works well via the serial port, but he did try programming with a USB-to-Serial dongle. He found that this method slows the process down to an unbearable 5-minutes.

The USB to serial adapter has a USB-A port on one end and a serial port on the other. The serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s.

In Part I of this article, I briefly mentioned the generic USB driver in the context of getting a USB device to communicate through it easily, with no custom kernel programming. Unfortunately, I ...

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 ...

the USB-ICP-LPC2K in circuit programmer now supports NXP’s ARM Cortex-M0 processor-based LPC1100 series and the Cortex-M3 processor-based LPC1300, LPC1700 families.

The USB to serial adapter has a USB-A port on one end and a serial port on the other. The serial port is most commonly RS232, which is a standard that dates back to the 1960s.