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Serial Pi Articles & Tutorials

The Serial Pi Plus and Serial Pi Zero are communication boards supporting the RS232 serial protocol, designed for use on the Raspberry Pi and other compatible single-board computers.

This knowledge base section contains articles and tutorials on the Serial Pi, showing how to use the expansion boards.

Find out more about the Serial Pi Plus.

Find out more about the Serial Pi Zero.

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Serial Port setup in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm

Tutorial for setting up the UART serial port on a Raspberry Pi using the GPIO header pins. Includes extra steps needed for Raspberry Pi 4 and Zero 2 W. ...

Serial Port Loopback Test

Raspberry Pi UART Tutorial showing how you can test if the UART port on your Raspberry Pi works by performing a loopback. ...

PySerial & RS232 Serial Communication

Learn how to send & receive data over RS232 serial communication using PySerial library on a Raspberry Pi. Step-by-step guide for beginners. ...