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→Serial Basics
*Open the Sketchbook->Examples->Communication->ASCIITable, compile it, and run it on your processor.
* This program does basic text communication from the processor to your PC, running through all of the characters in the alphabet.
* Click on the "Serial Monitor" button (to the right of the "Upload to Board" button) in the arduino software. verify that your processor is communicating with the PC (do you see the letters streaming by?).
* Assuming you have a sensor which produces an analog output, hook it up to one of the Analog Inputs on your arduino. If you do not have a sensor, use the light sensor from last week. If you are not sure how your sensor works, come over and talk to me and we can try to figure it out.
* Run a short program to read data from that sensor and send it to the Serial port.