Adafruit FT232H Breakout USB to GPIO+SPI+I2C

Wouldn't it be cool to operate a tiny OLED display, read a color sensor, or make some LEDs blink directly from your computer? Sure, you can program an Arduino or Trinket to communicate with these devices, but why can't your computer just talk to these devices and sensors itself? Well, now your computer can communicate with devices via the Adafruit FT232H Breakout Board!

What can the FT232H chip do? This chip from FTDI is similar to their USB-serial converter chips, but adds a 'multi-protocol synchronous serial engine' that allows you to use many common protocols like SPI, I2C, serial UART, JTAG, and more! There are even a handful of digital GPIO pins that you can read and write to control things like LEDs, read switches or buttons, and more. The FT232H breakout is like a little Swiss Army knife for serial protocols at your computer!

This chip is powerful and useful if you want to quickly iterate and test a device using I2C or SPI with Python, or to implement simple general input and output. There's no firmware to deal with, so you don't have to worry about how to send data to and from an Arduino that then communicates to and from an electronic sensor or display.

This breakout features an FT232H chip and an EEPROM for configuration.