Yes, I have been looking into Ftdi and max232 since I'm getting into a homebrew (i.e. serial) Arduino project as of late. This has similar problems to communication with a m100 type machine.
How many of these cables, dongles would the community need per year? Thanks Dave NV3F On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:00 PM, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > If you were building one I would recommend an all in one cable that hooks > straight from a USB port to any model t particularly the model 100 with no > adapters necessary. > > Also it should be full null rather than defeating flow control as the old > complink cable did in order to support programs like HTERM which rely on > flow control. > > And ftdi is the only way to go on Windows. > > Maybe a very small pcb that can be built into a thin hood shell with a > surface mounted ftdi chip and max232? > > All that said you could accomplish mostly the same thing by simply > aggregating the proper OTS parts and software and offering it for sale as a > package with documentation. That way it takes out all the research and > guesswork and that's the real trouble. > > -- John. >
