What he came up with is the extremely small USB to serial dongle seen above. The copper fingers are designed to plug into your USB port ... only needs one jumper wire making for very little ...

[Jethomson] worked out a way to use a Nokia USB cable at a USB to Serial cable. He was able to pick up one of these cables for less than $3 delivered. A little probing worked out which conductors ...

After many, many years of competing I/O standards, the introduction of USB (short for Universal Serial Bus ... to have charging built into the same port. In more recent years, USB has gotten ...