I needed an RS-232 USB dongle that would work with an android phone and found an old LG phone USB cable hanging about. A bit of poking revealed it to simply be a PL-2303 serial adapter. Lopping off the connector on the end and putting some 1 pin sockets on the ends results in a quite usable 3.3v serial dongle.<\/p>\n
The color code is:<\/p>\n
GND – Brown and shield
\ntxd – red
\ndtr_n\u00a0 – grey
\nrts_n – violet
\nrxd – orange
\nri – green
\ndsr_n – nc
\ncts – blue
\ndcd_n – yellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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