[Mike Lu] likes to add serial ports to his routers to use for debugging but he didn’t want to drill holes in his new RT-N12. After a bit of head-scratching he thought about repurposing the fo… ...

Before USB (short for Universal Serial Bus) took hold as the common standard for connecting peripherals to a computer, there ...

Before USB ports became standard on PCs, several devices connected through a serial port. They're obsolete in many ways, but they still see some use.

This means the Raspi can become a serial device with just a USB cable, an Ethernet device, MIDI device, camera, or just about anything else you can plug into a USB port.

Since its launch in 2012, USB Power Delivery has evolved alongside the broader USB spec. It's only leveraged via the USB Type-C connector, and as of this writing, the newest USB PD Revision is 3.1 ...

Maybe you needed a PS/2 connector or a serial port, the Apple Desktop Bus, or a DIN connector; maybe a parallel port or SCSI or Firewire cable. If you’ve never heard of those things, and if you ...