Small RS232 Serial SMD breakout board at Sparkfun
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02 Sep 2010 . Edited: 22 Sep 2010
I may be the last person still using serial. Sparkfun has a SMD RS232 breakout board that looks handy if you need a serial connection with a level converter. It comes assembled and has two LED activity indicators. No need to wire up a MAX232 and add caps! When you wire it up from the breakout PCB to mbed connect TX-RX and RX-TX and use 3.3V for VCC. (i.e, not 5 for VCC and not TX-TX and RX-RX)
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sometimes I use an old laptop as a terminal. It has no USB so this is very handy :)
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02 Sep 2010 . Edited: 02 Sep 2010
ghostfacesuk
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23 Nov 2012
Thanks Jim for the recommendation, I bought one from Coolcomponents.co.uk, works a treat!
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I may be the last person still using serial. Sparkfun has a SMD RS232 breakout board that looks handy if you need a serial connection with a level converter. It comes assembled and has two LED activity indicators. No need to wire up a MAX232 and add caps! When you wire it up from the breakout PCB to mbed connect TX-RX and RX-TX and use 3.3V for VCC. (i.e, not 5 for VCC and not TX-TX and RX-RX)