2 way instructions: Arduino to PC and back again

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Ahoy hoy. Back again. had a break of a week to have a play with processing, but now im BACK. i can hear the collective sigh of relief (or was it exasperation)

I have struggled to find a nice simple serial tutorial, for making processing talk to an arduino and back again (via a cable)

I am looking to do the following process:

Connect (obviously, i kind of understand the "handshake" procedure required)

Transmit a value, between 0 and 255, to the arduino.

have the arduino deal with the data, and respond that it is ready for the next value (send back a signal of some sort)

I also want to be able to send instructions from the PC, in addition to the values. ideally (in my mind) they would be in text format eg: "End" but i realise this may complicate things, so i might be better going for a single ascii character? "A" or "X"

If anyone knows of a good example, and could point me in the right direction, or summarise the sketch for both ends of the setup it would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

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My my this is

My my this is frustrating.

Having not had my code working, i stripped it back to a super simple version of my code, which didnt work.

then loaded the example from the serialcallresponse tutorial, which ALSO doesnt work, despite copy and paste. Which means (as far as i can see) that after all that, it is a problem with processing and the arduino mixing up the serial ports.

needless to say, not best pleased :frowning:

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I was using the appropriate

I was using the appropriate ide for each part, but i did have both ides open while trying to get it to work. I will try your suggestion birdmun. Is there a serial window in the processing one? Or is it just presented in the black box at the bottom(as i have noticed it does when looking up the the port list)