Serial Communications Part 1 - Graphical User Interfaces

摘要

Last month, we finished with our introduction to the Arduino Projects Kit (available from Nuts & Volts and Smiley Micros) and used all the parts to do some interesting things. This month, we will start to look a bit deeper into communicating between the Arduino and a PC. We will begin a three-part series about serial communications between a PC and a microcontroller. In the first part, we will learn a bit about the virtual serial port used in the Arduino and introduce writing programs on the PC using the free Microsoft C# and Visual Basic Express .NET applications. We'll use this to build Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). Next month, we will apply this knowledge to build a Simple Terminal program. In the third part, we will build a GUI for an Arduino VoltMeter.