Desert Online General Trading LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Desert Online General Trading LLC
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
⚡ Power your projects with the ultimate USB interface hub!
The Adafruit FT232H Breakout is a compact USB-to-GPIO/SPI/I2C interface board that enables high-speed communication between your computer and a wide range of hardware devices, perfect for prototyping and advanced electronics projects.
R**N
Nice little interface to the world
Add GPIO port micro-controllee directly to your desktop or laptop. No memory restrictions for interesting with your external environment. Requires a little setup but not too difficult.
O**I
Good product
Works as described
C**R
Smallest of its kind
I'm giving this the benefit of the doubt by giving it 4 stars. I tried to use this for JTAG and it would not work reliably. A larger model with an A-type connector on the other hand seems to work fine. The one that works has about twice the number of discrete components on the board as this one.
K**C
Great
Work as described
G**R
Five Stars
Lot more set-up than expected, but it works just as expected.
A**R
All ok, thanks.
All ok, thanks.
S**R
Great board for controlling I2C devices via USB from your computer
I bought this board to control an MCP4728 I2C Dac from a Windows PC as part of a project. Adafruit has a comprehensive tutorial online that walks you through everything you need to install the necessary libraries on your computer. My computer was a Windows PC, so I followed the Windows instructions. The only hiccup I had was in getting the usb library added to python on the Windows PC. The Adafruit tutorial points you to 32-bit binaries for the python libraries, and my computer being a 64-bit Windows 8.1 OS installation needed 64-bit binaries. I eventually found and installed them -- they were in a different folder of the same website as the 32-bit binaries.Programming the FT232H breakout in Python is pretty easy. I was able to write a program that controlled my DAC and implemented my project in about 130 lines of python code.The board ships with headers, but without them soldered, so be prepared to solder the headers yourself (this is not difficult if you have the appropriate tools). The reason they ship the boards without headers soldered is because different people may want to terminate the board differently. In my case, I had some 90 degree headers on hand that I used instead of the supplied straight headers.The board is well-constructed and worked well. My project worked flawlessly.
A**R
Drivers are bad
You need different drivers for serial or SPI, and you have to enable serial COM port on windows under device manager. This isn't adafruits fault but it's just not a convenient device.
