A Really Simple RS232 9 pin Sex Change.

This is a very simple project that lets you change a 9 pin female serial cable/plug into a male plug. This is useful when you need a sex change to connect. This actually happens to some of us. I wire mine for just 3 pins, but if you need more just wire it up. If this description and the pictures do not make this clear, then you do not need this device.

Step 1 Materials

2 9 pin male connectors ( mine are all salvage )
2 spacers, metal or plastic tubes see picture
2 bolts just long enough to hold the connectors together
Wire.
Electrical tape or hot glue gun for insulation

Comments

[Karroo Oakey]

I had to have one made for me long time ago, shame i didn't have this. Turns out the fitting has a proper honest to goodness name, and that  is a gender bender. Kid you not. The cables really do have a social life of sorts - I often find mine all tangled up like snakes that have just come out of hibernation, and I sure as hell didn't leave them like that.

[Derin]

you dirty serial ports,get a room

[n0ukf]

Cables don't have sex, despite the fact that they have genders. Too much in the world today, "sex" is used when "gender" should be instead, even on employment applications.

[russ_hensel]

No I think they have sex ( and often, my cables stay plugged in for hours ) On the other hand they do not have much social life an "Gender is the social dimension of being male or female." http://www.echeat.com/essay.php?t=30048 So you can pick you gender, but without surgery you cannot pick your sex ( you can pick you friends, you can pick you nose, but you cannot pick your friend's nose.

I just liked the title.

[GorillazMiko]

Cool Instrutable!

[John Smith]

Nice instructable. It could be useful, if you needed one. The name sure got my attention, too.