You may recognize the RS-232 serial port on your TV, but do you know all that it can do? It's probably more than you realized ...

Ok, the title is a bit misleading. Like most things in life, it really isn’t infinite. But I’m going to show you how you can use a very interesting Linux feature to turn one serial port from a ...

Arguably one of the most important pieces of software to have in your hardware hacking arsenal is a nice serial terminal emulator. There’s plenty of choice out there, from classic command line tools ...

If you've been using computers for more than a couple of decades, you've probably used a serial port to attach peripherals like your mouse and modem. Until the USB standard rendered them obsolete in ...

I am going to be updating the firmware on a pallet of routers. This is not my usual gig, and the last time I would have done anything like this I'd have reached out for Hyper Terminal, but it's not in ...