

#Serial communicator serial#
This microcontroller is used as a USB to serial converter.

The primary microcontroller used On Arduino UNO and MEGA – has built-in UARTĪ microcontroller used on the Arduino UNO and MEGA that has a built in USART. Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter I’ll try to explain all the jargon along the way as best as I can, but just in case you miss something… here is a chart listing all the terms used here: TERM I know when you’re new to electronics, all this crazy sounding jargon can be confusing, and you might think it will all be way over your head.Īnd it might be all “over your head” for a while (it still might be over my head 😉 – but as you get more familiar with these terms, and see them used and explained in different ways, over time all the crazy stuff will start to sink in. OK – before we start, I want to warn you that this lesson is filled with technical terms, probably like 572 of them! The (lack of) significance of the baud rate 9600.What the heck baud rate it – and why it is SO crucial.The different roles of start bits, data frames, parity bits, and stop bits.The nitty gritty of basic serial communication.Maybe you have been using some functions from the Arduino Serial library, like Serial.begin() and Serial.print() and they leave you wondering more about this serial communication thing – I mean, how does it actually work!? Are you wondering what the heck serial communication is?
