While the Arduino family of boards connect to your computer using a USB virtual serial port, the ATmega ones have an actual serial connection on-board. For instance, on the Nano there is an ...

Outputting data from a microcontroller over a serial port is convenient and easy, but formatting, visualizing, and analyzing the data can be tedious and frustrating. [Alex Spataru] knows this all ...

In just 100 seconds, learn how Arduino works - from its microcontroller and architecture to how it's programmed and used in ...

You can read the state of a button using Arduino and a few lines of code. The actual state is shown in the Serial Monitor window as 0 or 1, 0 meaning the button is not pressed and 1 that the button is ...

It’s pretty simple and reliable! While I was testing my newly installed Serial Port Monitor, an Arduino Uno was just plugged into my laptop with a sketch loaded to blink the onboard LED (D13) at a ...