usb serial programming

[Bruce Rowen]

On Jul 21, 2014, at 1:05 PM, "Amadeus W.M." <amadeus84 at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 12:27:44 -0600, Bruce Rowen wrote:
> 
>> Assuming your camera is RS232, you can use a simple RS232 daughter card on the Raspberry (about $7 from MCM electronics and others).
>> I have done this exact thing for communications with an old RS232 device.
>> 
>> Alternative is of course a USB to RS232 adapter and as Greg writes, you just change the target device file (the $7 adapter also creates a /dev/ttyxxx device.
>> 
>> -Bruce
>> On Jul 21, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
>> 
> 
> Thank you, that's useful. This, you mean?
> 
> http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/83-15630

It looks like they may no longer carry it, sorry. There are others out there, try googling 'raspberry serial port GPIO adapter'
> 
> This one is for Arduino. I couldn't find one for Pi on the MSM site, but 
> knowing what to search for lead me to a plethora of expansion cards for 
> the RPi:
> 
> http://elinux.org/RPi_Expansion_Boards#RS232_to_TTL_converter


The USB-serial adapter may be the more expedient solution at this point, 
Good luck!

> 
> Thank you for the pointer.
> 
> 
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