Make your own USB to serial converter.
Prashant Patil's page from 2018.
Rob's manufacturing of Prashant's design, adding a male USB connector.
Some components not on the fab inventory:
- 16MHz resonator. This is apparently necessary, in order to get 16MHz x 3 = 48MHz for the usb clock through the microcontroller pll.
- 22 Ohm resistors. If we need to get close to this, two stacked parallel 50 Ohm resistors work.
- Female FTDI connector. Digikey 952-3199-1
- USB extension cable. Then, male plug is not needed.
Modifications and additions:
- Rob tested (Arduino micro <-> FTDI -> computer) at 9600 to 230,400 baud.
- Matt Schrage at Harvard is working on a version with USB C connector
- It would be nicer to have FTDI connector reversed? Maybe not.
- How do we modify this to work as a 3.3V FTDI? Can one version do both, using switch or jumper?