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The Poor-mans USB2TTL adapter
I didn't have a USB2TTL cable laying around and so I looked in to what one entails. Turns out the magic in those cables I already had in a break-out board.. I just soldered on a header and used a little breadboard to pull over the pins I needed. But alas, it didn't matter. All the magic was gone from that FTDI chip anyway. Though I've ordered another one of those rather than paying more for a whole cable that doesn't give me the same flexibility.
The Poor-mans USB2TTL adapter
I didn't have a USB2TTL cable laying around and so I looked in to what one entails. Turns out the magic in those cables I already had in a break-out board.. I just soldered on a header and used a little breadboard to pull over the pins I needed. But alas, it didn't matter. All the magic was gone from that FTDI chip anyway. Though I've ordered another one of those rather than paying more for a whole cable that doesn't give me the same flexibility.