SparkFun Electronics - Arduino Serial USB Board

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Arduino Serial USB Board

sku: DEV-08165

Description: Using the FT232RL, the Arduino Serial USB Board shows up as a com port allowing serial communication to and from the Arduino Stamp or any other serial device.

Arduino is an open-source physical computing platform based on a simple i/o board and a development environment that implements the Processing/Wiring language. Arduino can be used to develop stand-alone interactive objects or can be connected to software on your computer (e.g. Flash, Processing, MaxMSP). The open-source IDE can be downloaded for free (currently for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux).

Documents:

Diagram for attaching the Arduino Serial USB Board to the Arduino Stamp
ArduinoMiniUSB Page
Arduino Home Page
How To
Programming Reference
Arduino Forum

Pricing

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	by todbot +4.6 \| May 31, 2007 at 9:46 PM +0.21
Note: this is just a USB-to-serial adapter meant for use with the Arduino Stamp. If you want a full Arduino board, consider the 'Arduino USB Board', SKU#: DEV-00666.

Colin

| November 11, 2008 at 9:43 AM

+0.21

What's the difference between this and the FTDI Basic Breakout Board? This appears to work with the Arduino Stamp but the FTDI Basic Breakout Board is required for the Arduino Pro boards. Are the Arduino Serial USB Board and the FTDI Basic Breakout Board interchangeable? It would be nice if only one type of USB to Serial adapter board were needed to interface with both the Arduino Stamp and the Arduino Pros.

	by Colin +2 \| November 11, 2008 at 9:47 AM +0.21
Sorry, when I referred to the Arduino Pro, I meant the Pro Mini.

	by microbyte +1.4 \| January 27, 2009 at 2:39 PM 0
So this is basically the TX and RX pins of Arduino. The FTDI chip is the same of Arduino, right?

	by Robot Overlord +2.3 \| March 18, 2009 at 3:30 PM 0
will this work for a standalone arduino board?

flash

+1.6

| July 11, 2009 at 11:14 AM

Horrible documentation on this. Arduino has the worst help section I have seen. Diagram and How both do not deal with the Mini pro. I have a mini pro and there is no documentation on how to hook into it with the auto reset. As well the pin outs are not printed on the bourd and the one I was shipped is not like the picture. Where is the DTR and what does the jumper do? The schematic is even wrong . Come on that is just LAZY. I got it to work and it works great but still can't auto reset.

	by GeneW +2.9 \| July 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM 0
@ flash It looks like you didn't read the description for this product. It doesn't mention the mini pro or any other Arduino except the Arduino Stamp. That would probably explain the lack of documentation for using it with the mini pro. Buy the right Arduino, the Stamp, for this board and you won't have anything to complain about.

	by samuel +1.4 \| September 18, 2009 at 3:47 PM 0
Hi! I'm trying to use this to convert RS-485 to USB with a MAX485 IC as this: TX -> DI RX /RE VCC -> DE and supply voltage VCC and GND to MAX485 8 and 5. I have some problems at the monitoring sw because of this wiring and I would need TXEN pin to control /RE and DE together. Any suggestion? Thanks!

	by awgibbons +1.2 \| October 23, 2009 at 4:21 PM 0
For the record, you can get this to work with the Arduino Pro Mini, but the FTDI Basic Breakout works better. You just need to hit the reset manually. So if you really only want to buy one, you can, but you DO LOOSE FUNCTIONALITY. You loose the ability to autoreset, which is an annoyance, but better than having a programmer you can't use.