and simply build my own USB to serial adapter that uses pogo pins instead of pin headers. This actually wouldn’t be that much work — two hours to design the circuit, maybe an hour assembling ...

There was a time when if you bought a USB mouse, in the box was also ... it may well have come with an adapter for a 9-pin RS232 serial port. Those mice from a decade or more ago would have ...

You just need the right USB adapters to make them work. One such adapter is the USB to serial converter, which is used for connecting various legacy devices to modern computers. The USB to ...