USB-to-Serial Module based coders cable

[wraggster]

$200 ouch

[Mental2k]

I meant wouldnt it be cheaper to just buy the coders cable, than buy a BBA and USB cable thing.

[pboese]

Ack The CSV USB-Serial topic got trashed during a recent YABB upgrade

[souLLy]

[quote author=Mental2k link=board=hardware;num=1093196907;start=0#11 date=08/25/04 at 16:41:10]I meant wouldnt it be cheaper to just buy the coders cable, than buy a BBA and USB cable thing.[/quote]

yeah but a coders cable transfers data really slowly in comparison to a bba or a usb connection would

[wraggster]

would archive.org have a copy of the topic?

[pboese]

[quote author=souLLy link=board=hardware;num=1093196907;start=0#13 date=09/16/04 at 07:50:19]

yeah but coders cable transfers data really slowly in comparison to a bba or a usb connection would[/quote]

This cable transfers data at 1.56M baud. It's fast enough to do serious development work ;D A 4 meg file can transfer in about 26 seconds with compression.

[Alexvrb]

Cool. I remember discussing something similar over at DCEmu a while ago. Somebody should start making and selling these things.

[pboese]

Here's a picture of the second prototype:


I've started work on designing a printed circuit board that will use the FTDI FT232BM chip and a handful of other parts rather than the DLP-USB232BM module pictured above. It would be nice if I could get a popular supplier of DC stuff to sell this as new improved coders cable

[Alexvrb]

Why are you replacing it, cost/size? Anyway, you could probably get Lik-Sang interested in it.

[pboese]

This is just a prototype. I'm not happy with it' yet. I've done some redesign and just ordered some more parts. Revision B will solve the problems I've seen with the device under WindowsME and OS-X.