Category Archives: OSX

Easy serial communication on osx and linux

Most people don’t think OSX comes with a program to interact with serial devices, but they’re wrong! Someone showed me this brilliant tip a few days ago:
screen /dev/tty.usbserial 9600
It’s useful on Linux too, since minicom can be quite a pain to set up. And by the way, this cheap AirLink101 AC-USBS Serial Adapter from Fry’s [...]