Nokia DKU-5 cable to Boarduino FTDI
I soldered myself a Boarduino when I went to Chaos Communication Camp this summer, but I didn’t buy a FTDI cable. I didn’t feel like buying one so I asked the internet! Well, I found an article about making a FTDI cable from the CA-42 USB2.0 Nokia Data Cable. I happened to also have a spare Nokia USB-Serial cable sitting around, not a CA-42 but a DKU-5 and completely useless since all my Nokia phones were recycled a long time ago.
These are the pins:
- Black – GND
- Yellow – RX
- White – TX
Looking from the end of the Boarduino at the connector the pins go: Ground, CTS, Vcc, RX, TX, RTS
In order to provide the power to the Boarduino I desoldered the red wire from the board (as the Boarduino worked fine without it) and soldered it straight onto the 5V pin of the USB connection on the cable’s PCB then I took the other end of the red wire and connected it to the Vcc of the Boarduino.
Also I had no molex connectors so I stole some off a CD audio cable, these were only 4 pins wide but I glued two together.