Archive for the ‘Quick Tips’ Category

This is a Quick Tip, so there won’t be much details on how the serial numbers will be logged and tested for repetitiveness.

        Building on the previous post VB.NET Quick Tip – Reading A USB GPS, I will show how to use a USB to Serial cable manufactured by FTDI.  In my projects, prototyping and final products I use the FTDI TTL-232R extensively.  The cable is reasonably priced and comes in two varieties, a […]

The GPS outputs NMEA data on a port designated as a Serial Com Port by Windows.

Regex wasn’t good enough for me, nor was GetInvalidFileNameChar()