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DFRobot Basic Breakout Arduino Compatible Review

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Description of DFRobot Basic Breakout Arduino Compatible

It is a basic breakout board for the FTDI FT232RL USB to serial IC. The pinout of this board matches the FTDI cable to work for Arduino boards. The major difference with this board is that it brings out the DTR pin as opposed to the RTS pin of the FTDI cable. The DTR pin allows a board target to auto-reset when a new Sketch is downloaded. This is a really nice feature to have and allows a sketch to be downloaded without having to hit the reset button.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

A real FTDI chip makes a big difference.

This is the real deal. Almost all cheap FTDI boards are made with counterfeit chips that give you driver problems and are not reconfigurable with the FTDI programming tool. This one is slightly more expensive than the others but comes with a real FTDI R232 that can be reprogrammed with a tool to behave exactly as the application requires (e.g. levels need to be inverted to get the to enable communication with Frsky telemetry sensors and receivers). cheap FTDI clones cannot be reprogrammed to do

Pros
  • This is FTDI FT232RL Base Board for USB to Serial IC Connection
Cons
  • Neutral