No, wait.  That’s not right.  I meant to say Simple SparkFun Simon Mod!
In this busy holiday season, it’s rare that we get the time to even write an article let alone build a kit.  But this kit is such good clean fun we had to do both!  Across our desk slid the diminutive red box […]

Welcome to our third introductory article on bit-banging the FT232 USB chips.  Hopefully you have read our first article and second article on this subject, and played around with the example software so you are already a resident expert on USB bit banging.
This will NOT be our last article on the FT232, but it will […]

In our last article, we gave a brief introduction to bit banging the FT232R.  As an example, we used the FT232 that comes installed on the Arduino board.  In this article, we’ll provide a little more detail on bit banging and the associated pros and cons.  We are still using the Arduino diecimila board for […]