“I just wish it exposed analogue ports. I need both for my application (though I only found that out once I'd ordered this). From what I can tell, the chip does have them. I guess it's a size/functionality trade-off. I've had fun though building a board with comparators and an 8-3 decoder to provide a simple ADC binary input. The board itself is super simple to use and absolutely tiny! I really like it. Might well use more for other projects.”
“The Adafruit FT232H breakout is a very useful and easy to use board with an excellent tutorial on the Adafruit website outlining setting up and usage. I have successfully connected the breakout board to a Linux laptop running Ubuntu 16.04LTS to control LED's and a ADC1115 analog to digital converter via I2C.
However, I have not yet been able to use the board with an Apple Mac (OS Sierra 10.12.6). The libftdi v1.3 fails on the Mac with an error relating to requiring 3 variables rather than 2 at some point within the library. Reverting to v1.2 results in a "no module ftdi" error. The Adafruit forum also reports various issues and similar problems with Macs.
I have not used it with a Windows system, but if you are using Linux I would recommend it.”
