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I'm trying to get Gregs temperature controlled fridge to work, but the catch
is that the laptop I'm using doesn't have a serial port. I'm hoping I can
use a usb to serial convertor and tell the program to look at the usb port
for the temperature probes, but I am lost as to how to do this.