Adafruit Raspberry Pi console cable and drivers

These instructions are better than the Adafruit tutorial. It uses the Mac OS terminal and the driver installation is different in Lion.

http://svbreakaway.info/tp-raspi.php

Combine with these instructions for using Minicom to test the port

http://www.hobbytronics.co.uk/raspberry-pi-serial-port

I was able to use cool-term and mini-com (with local echo set on each one) to have a 2 way terminal session at 9600 baud.

Next – we’ll try to use the serial port to send RTTY using the Arduino method.