[Arm-netbook] Hacking the Mele A1000 - ultra beginner guide

[julien at forgeat.name]

Dear All,

Lots of valuable answers there, let's wrap up on the UART port:
  - Important notice: 2.54mm connectors do not fit in the port, there is 
a good chance that 2mm connectors fit though (Thanks Alejandro)
  - What is required is a USB TTL Serial/UART 3.3V cable (or board). 
This can be obtained in either of the following ways:
    - get a board that does Serial to USB conversion @ 3.3V, most of the 
boards I looked up both worked with 5V and 3.3V
    - get a Nokia (old) data cable [1] which is basically the same thing 
but might only work @3.3V and requires a little more work to connect to 
the UART. (Thanks Oliver, A1bert and Henrik)

I went for the first option and ordered a board [2] and a 2.54mm to 2mm 
cables [3] (could not find a shop having both :-( )

Julien

[1] 
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-cable-for-nokia-n1200-1208-1650-2630-2670-13638
[2] http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=12750141688
[3] http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=14496696266


On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:54:18 +0100, Henrik Nordström wrote:
> ons 2012-03-21 klockan 22:23 +0800 skrev julien at forgeat.name:
>
>> So let's see if this will fly, I am blocked at the very beginning: 
>> an
>> UART to serial, or as I understand, UART to serial to USB cable is
>> required, is this what I should purchase?
>>   -
>> 
>> http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=13235232319&prt=1332338469175&prc=1
>> Same question to connect the internal USB to external computer, 
>> except
>> that for this one, I do not even have a link as I have no idea how 
>> it is
>> called.
>
> That looks like a reasonable choice.
>
> Another slightly cheaper one a the same site is
> 
> http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=12750141688&is_b=1&cat_id=2&key_words=ttl+usb&spm=1008.1000032.1000012.4
>
> What you need to look for is USB TTL Serial/UART 3.3V.
>
> The one you found is capable of both 3.3V and 5.0V.
>
> There is very many similar ones. I usually use FTDI based cables like
> these
> http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/Cables/USBTTLSerial.htm
> or
> http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9717
>
>
> Or if I want to permanenty add an USB UART port then an UB232R module 
> or
> similar which I mount inside the device with just a hole for mini-usb
> connector.
>
> http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9873
> http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=13235232319
>
> Regards
> Henrik
>
>
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