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Re:Building the worlds jankiest serial to USB cable from sca... by fstokesman on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @06:54AM (#35054331)
Indeed - I know I could have also popped out the DIP micro on the board and used it directly, but I choose not to for two reasons:

1. Its so much bulkier, and I wanted something that was the same form factor as my old unit 2. It seemed way more fun to do things this way, and I was pretty sure I could do the whole operation in less than an hour

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Re:Building the worlds jankiest serial to USB cable from sca... by osamagirl69 on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @12:20PM (#35058081)
Clearly you should have compromised and hacksaw'ed out the usb jack + ftdi region of the board, thus satisfying both your desire to have something jankey and compact. You would even get free activity LEDs!
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