{"id":2441,"date":"2011-05-20T00:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/ok-ok-i-wont-cut-open-the-usb-cable\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:17:41","slug":"ok-ok-i-wont-cut-open-the-usb-cable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/ok-ok-i-wont-cut-open-the-usb-cable\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, OK, I won&#8217;t cut open the USB cable,,,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cableschematic.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 369px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/cableschematic.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5608590937867460738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I foolishly thought I could just open that baby up and work on it like the old serial port cables. I have been told (many, many times) that this can&#8217;t be done. Man, you know things are getting complex when the cables have schematics. G8INE sent me the above diagram of a USB-Serial converter cable. E-bay here I come!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I foolishly thought I could just open that baby up and work on it like the old serial port cables. I have been told (many, many times) that this can&#8217;t be done. Man, you know things are getting complex when the cables have schematics. G8INE sent me the above diagram of a USB-Serial converter cable. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/ok-ok-i-wont-cut-open-the-usb-cable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;OK, OK, I won&#8217;t cut open the USB cable,,,&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-minimalist-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2443,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441\/revisions\/2443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}