I agree it's not a perfect situation or solution to the problem, the idea was just that if on did find themselves with a bricked FTDI based device that there could be a way to revive it.
I agree on the "who knows what they have" end of things, they all look legitimate even to people in the know, unless you take a close look at them.
Hmm, tie pins 2 and 3 together and have a USB to ALDL cable?perhaps it is time to jump ship off the FTDI path? i'm seeing some interesting uses of some ATTINY and ATMEGA chips that use them to act as a USB-UART bridge.
http://www.obdev.at/Images/vusb/circuit-zoomed.gif
the ATTINY2313 isn't expensive at all.... and would allow for some external a/d to be added in for additional sensor logging.
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