NEW PRODUCT – Adafruit CP2105 Friend – USB to Dual UART Serial Converters

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On our first Pentium 120 tower ( purchased at PCs for Everyone on Thorndike st in Cambridge Mass ) came with two DE-9 serial ports on the back: COM1 and COM2. Perfect for connecting a mouse and maybe a modem. Nowadays, long gone are the days of parallel ports and serial ports. Now the USB port reigns supreme! But USB is hard, and you just want to transfer your every-day serial data hither & thither from two serial ports to a single USB port without the complexity of a hub. What now? Enter the Adafruit CP2105 Friend !

The CP2105 is very similar to the CP2102N . Except, instead of having a single serial UART port, it has two .…