He whipped up a breakout board for it that throws in some extras ... it possible to drive the device using 5V hardware like the Arduino Uno pictured above. While he was adding in parts he included ...

We think of the Arduino as a rapid prototyping tool but we never thought of it as an FTDI breakout board before. [Ihsan Kehribar] wrote a quick post to show how it’s done. You’ll find an FTDI ...