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USB Serial Communication

Parts List

• Arduino Uno or Adafruit METRO 328
• USB cable (Type A to B for Uno, Type A to Micro-B for METRO)
• Half-size or full-size breadboard
• Assorted jumper wires
• 220Ω resistors (×3)
• 10kΩ trim potentiometer
• 5mm red LED
• 5mm common-anode RGB LED

Code

Download Code (2nd Edition, Chapter 7)
(Also available on GitHub)

Useful Links

• FTDI Driver Downloads
• Adafruit Windows Drivers
• Arduino Serial Library Reference
• PuTTY Serial Terminal Download
• Simple Wikipedia ASCII Table Entry
• Arduino parseInt() Function Reference
• Processing Download Page
• Processing Serial Library Reference
• Processing draw() function
• Processing background() function
• Processing serialEvent() function

Videos

The following video is a bit dated, but still does a good job of introducing the basics of serial communication with Arduino: