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Serial Tester (Arduino Tool)

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By Richard Niemand
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Inspired by a youtube video I wanted to start communicating with my Arduino via a serial connection from my computer. Having a connection from my computer -> Arduino opens up a whole lot of new and exciting projects (e.g. external CPU / Memory display …).

Following the video it was easy enough to get up and running, but a real pain having to open Visual Studio every time I wanted to change the commands I was sending to my Arduino. I decided to throw together a small .exe aptly named Serial Tester to allow for simpler communication from my side, and it looks something like this:

All the source code for the application is freely available on GitHub here.

Compiled versions of the program can be found here.

Feel free to use / modify & share it, hopefully it helps you out also :)

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