Northern English for something a cut above. Not the fanciest phrase — but it's honest. We're not reinventing serial communication. We're making the version that should have existed all along.
About Different Gravy
One product at a time.
A small UK hardware company making debug tools that don't need replacing.
Why we exist
The market was broken.
Every USB-to-UART adapter out there is the same reference design, built as cheaply as possible, sold by the thousand. They work — until they don't. Then you buy another one.
We thought there should be a version worth keeping. Genuine FTDI silicon, proper ESD protection, a hardware voltage switch, and build quality that doesn't apologise for itself. So we made one.
The name
Different Gravy.
How we build
Material honesty.
Anodised aluminium, matte solder mask, exposed copper traces. We don't hide the engineering behind a plastic shell. If the PCB layout is clean enough to look at, it's clean enough to show.
Every unit is hand-checked before it ships. No auto-routing, no contract assembly, no corners cut that we wouldn't cut on our own bench.
The productShop now
Meet the DG-UART.
USB-C UART adapter. Three voltages, one hardware switch. Board from £18, aluminium enclosure from £42.