![]() ![]() The Arduino will show up as a serial device. Can you write a program in RealBasic and transfer it to the Arduino controller and run it. Code: With SerialPort2 You have some object named SerialPort2. You call a bunch of methods on the object. If you press F1, select the Index button, if needed, select the drop down list for Filtered by:, select Visual Basic, and type SerialPort into the Look for: field, you can select 'SerialPort class' to see all the methods that the SerialPort class has. There are several related to reading from the serial port. There is an event, DataReceived, that you can register an event handler for. Whenever serial data arrives, your handler will be called, and can deal with that data. Hi Graynomad What I mean, is when I use arduino compiler and hit serial monitor, I get the temperature. But when I ran the code you posted, I got some value from temp now. But the value from temp didn't change when I put heat on it. If I understand it right, when I program arduino like 'Serial.print' This is what it sends to serial port? Is there a way in VB to take spesific code from serial signal. Like in this code I use one sensor sending value to VB. If I had several sensors, like sensor 1-sensor6 could I split the code so I could place the value where I need it, and how? Back to question. The temp sensor I have, I'd like to show in a TextBox. Refreshing every 20 sec. In my code showed above, how can I do this? Before going further in the tutorial, first we will discuss about what communication is in general. Communication is nothing but exchange of information between two devices. Here, the information is nothing but data which can be anything like text documents, images, audio or video files etc. Data can be sent or received between two systems or devices and it is in the form of bits i.e. There are many types of protocols that are used in transferring data between two devices, but all these protocols are based on either Parallel Communication or Serial Communication. But these high speed data transfers in parallel communication requires more number of wires and also the distance of communication is very less i.e. They cannot be used for long distance communication. Apart from the on board communications like RAM, graphics cards and other PCI connections, all other devices like printers, hard disks, Ethernet etc. Use serial communication. This is because, unlike parallel communication, serial communication transfers one bit of data at a time over two to four wires depending on the protocol. Even though the data transfer speeds in serial communication is very less when compared to that of parallel communication, this speed is sufficient for devices like printer, hard disk, mouse etc. The main advantages of serial communication over parallel communication are longer distance communication, less number of wires for communication, reduction in hardware complexity etc. When coming to Arduino, the communication between Arduino UNO (or any other board) and computer is serial communication. The main purpose of this serial communication is to transfer the sketch from computer to Arduino, send information to computer etc. The most common type of serial communication protocol is UART i.e. Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter. The UART connection requires a 9 pin DE – 9 Connector. But, most modern computers and laptops do not include these COM ports. Hence, if we want to connect our microcontrollers like 8051, AVR or ARM, we need to use an external serial to USB converter. But Arduino UNO has an on board serial to USB converter and hence we can directly connect the Arduino to the computer. Using this USB connection and Arduino IDE, we can send data to Arduino or receive data from Arduino. This data can be monitored with the help of Serial Monitor in the Arduino IDE. Now that we have some idea about serial communication, we write a program for communication between Arduino and the computer. For this we will modify the button – LED program we used in the previous tutorial.
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