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    Serial Communication in Arduino Uno

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    Serial communication allows the Arduino to transmit and receive data to and from a PC over a USB cable. This enables sending sensor data or controlling devices from a computer. The Arduino IDE includes a serial monitor window to view data sent from the Arduino. While hardware serial communication uses specific pins, software serial emulates serial input/output on other digital pins.

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    Serial Communication in Arduino Uno

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    Serial communication allows the Arduino to transmit and receive data to and from a PC over a USB cable. This enables sending sensor data or controlling devices from a computer. The Arduino IDE includes a serial monitor window to view data sent from the Arduino. While hardware serial communication uses specific pins, software serial emulates serial input/output on other digital pins.

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    Serial communication allows the Arduino to transmit and receive data to and from a PC over a USB cable. This enables sending sensor data or controlling devices from a computer. The Arduino IDE includes a serial monitor window to view data sent from the Arduino. While hardware serial communication uses specific pins, software serial emulates serial input/output on other digital pins.

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    Serial Communication in Arduino Uno

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    Serial communication allows the Arduino to transmit and receive data to and from a PC over a USB cable. This enables sending sensor data or controlling devices from a computer. The Arduino IDE includes a serial monitor window to view data sent from the Arduino. While hardware serial communication uses specific pins, software serial emulates serial input/output on other digital pins.

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    The key takeaways are that serial communication allows data transmission between Arduino and PC over USB and it enables monitoring and control of Arduino projects from a computer.

    Serial communication in Arduino works by transmitting data through the TX and RX pins to a computer or other device. The Arduino IDE serial monitor displays data sent from Arduino and allows sending data to Arduino.

    Hardware serial uses dedicated RX and TX pins while software serial emulates serial communication on any digital pins using a library. Software serial is used when more serial ports are needed or to use non-standard pins.

    Serial Communication in Arduino Uno

    In this tutorial, we will explore the use of Serial Communication in Arduino Uno. Arduino has built-in support for UART which enable serial communication. UART as a

    serial protocol is most useful and famous protocol. The Arduino can transmit and receive data to the PC over USB Cable. This comes handy when we want to

    send the sensor data from microcontroller to PC.  The Arduino IDE has built-in Serial Monitor window, which displays the data sent from Arduino to PC. The same

    way we can send data/command from Serial Monitor to Arduino. The serial communication enables us to control electronic devices connected to Arduino board from

    PC. When comes to interfacing more complicated devices such as LCD, RTC, EEPROM etc. We can use serial communication to debug the code and track errors to

    interface those devices.

    Example Program 1: In this example, we will send a string from Arduino to PC. Once we upload the sketch into Arduino. We will see this string will be printing

    on Serial Monitor Window of Arduino IDE.

    1. void setup()
    2. {
    3. Serial.begin(9600);
    4. }
    5.
    6. void loop()
    7. {
    8. Serial.println("Hello from Umesh");
    9. delay(1000);
    10. }

     Hardware Setup: We only need to connect Arduino Uno to PC over standard USB Cable. Once

    we have done connection we are ready to upload the sketch to Arduino and open serial
    monitor window to display data sent from Arduino. As we been transmitting string from

    Arduino to PC. We will observe that LED connected to TX Pin on Arduino will light up.


    Open Serial Monitor of Arduino IDE

    Serial Monitor of Arduino Printing String


    Example Program 2: In this example, we will transmit as well as receive data using Arduino. This program receives data from PC and then send it back to PC.

    This way we can perform transmit and receive data using Arduino board.

    1. int inByte; // Stores incoming command


    2.
    3. void setup()
    4. {
    5. Serial.begin(9600);
    6. pinMode(13, OUTPUT); // Led pin
    7. Serial.println("Type 1: LED ON, 0: LED OFF "); // Ready to receive commands
    8. }
    9.
    10. void loop()
    11. {
    12. if (Serial.available() > 0)
    13. { // A byte is ready to receive
    14. inByte = Serial.read();
    15. if (inByte == '1') { // byte is '1'
    16. digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
    17. Serial.println("LED - On");
    18. } else { // byte isn't '1'
    19. digitalWrite(13, LOW);
    20. Serial.println("LED - off");
    21. }
    22. }
    23. }

    Now just verify and upload the sketch to Arduino and open up Serial Monitor. We are ready to control LED connected PIN 13 of Arduino. Now just enter ‘1’ and press

    Send button. We will see on board orange LED will turn ON. When we enter ‘0’ and hit Send button LED will turn OFF. This is how we can control devices connected to

    Arduino using a serial interface.


    Now you might be thinking what if we need more serial ports in our project. In that case, we will use

    Software Serial Library. Also, SoftwareSerial will be used when we want to connect via serial

    communication on some other digital pins of Arduino. It allows our program to emulate serial
    input/output in software instead of dedicated hardware pins.

    Software Serial Example: In this example, we’ll be using PIN 10 and 11 as Rx, Tx respectively. Whereas Pin No. 0 and 1 which are default serial pins on

    Arduino hardware.

    1. #include <SoftwareSerial.h> /* Connect device Rx - 10, Tx - 11 */


    2.
    3. SoftwareSerial mySerial(10, 11);
    4.
    5. void setup()
    6. {
    7. Serial.begin(9600); // Open serial communications and wait for port to open:
    8. mySerial.begin(4800); // set the data rate for the SoftwareSerial port
    9. }
    10.
    11. void loop()
    12. {
    13. Serial.println("HELLO"); // Sends string to PC to Serial Monitor
    14. mySerial.println("HELLO"); // Sends string to device
    15. delay(1000); // Waits here 1000ms and then goes on
    16. }

    This is how Serial Communication in Arduino works. We hope this tutorial will help you to understand serial communication. There will be several projects where

    we will use this feature serial UART in Arduino to debug the code. We recommend you to play around code and see how it works. If you have any suggestions, feel

    free to leave a comment. Thanks.

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