Arduino OLED Display Tutorial Hardware Required 1x Arduino UNO or Genuine UNO * 1x (Recommended) Screw Terminal Block Shield for Arduino Uno ® Or you can buy the following sensor kit: 1* DIYables Sensor Kit 30 types, 89 units ® Please note: These are Amazon affiliate links. you buy the components through these links, We will get a commission at no extra cost to you. We appreciate itAbout Serial Monitor Serial Monitor is one of the tools in Arduino IDE. It is used for two purposes: ‘@ Arduino > PC: Receives data from Arduino and display data on screen. This is Usually used for debugging and monitoring @ PC — Arduino: Sends data (command) from PC to Arduino. Data is exchanged between Serial Monitor and Arduino via USB cable, which is also used to upload the code to Arduino. Therefore, To use Serial Monitor, we MUST connect Arduino and PC via this cable. 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This value MUST be the same as the value used in Arduino code (in Serial. besin() function). icone] eras Rewino 00 baud Joa out SELL When we select baud rate (even the value is not changed), Arduino is reset. Therefore, this is one way to reset Arduino. 1. Textbox user can type characters to send to Arduino, |COM6, | ‘Aitosora Show timestamp Newine “2600 baue Joearoutpu 1. Ending selection: select the ending characters appended to data sent to Arduino. Selection includes: = No line ending: eppend nothing "= Newline: append nowine (or '|») cheracter 1 Carriage return: append carriage return (CR or ‘|r) character [= Both NL ond CR: append both newline and carriage rotuen (CRU, or ‘Ir n} charactors icome [toserl Show timestamp [eawine ‘800 baud Sctear output 1. Send button: when the button is pressed, Serial Monitor sends data in textbox plus the ending characters to Arduino come, “Autosoral Show timestamp Newine “2600 pave JoearoutpuArduino To PC To send data from Arduino to PC, we need to use the following Arduino code: ‘¢- Sot baud rate and begin Serial port by using Serialbegin() function Bw sctminie: o ‘@Send data to Serial Monitor using one of the following functions: Serialprint), Serial.printin(), Serialwrite(), For example, send “Hello Worfd!”to Serial Monitor [ries siscinirmtio rect o Example Use In this example, we will send the “ArduinoGetstarted.com” from Arduino to Serial Monitor every second roid setup) ( Serial begin(9600) 0 roid Loop) { Serial printin("ArdsinecetStarted. com | lelay(1000) Quick steps ‘@- Copy the above code and open with Arduino IDE ‘¢ Click Upload button on Arduino IDE to upload code to Arduino ‘@- open Serial Monitor @ Select baurate 9600 ‘#= See the output on &: [COM6|AFduinocetstarted.com lArduinoGetstarted.com lArduinoGetstarted. com IarduinoGetstarted.com 1 Monitor Autoscroll Show timestamp ‘@— Ty changing Serial.srintin() function to Serial. print () functionPC To Arduino How to send data from PC to Aduino and read it on Arduino You will type text on Serial Monitor and then click Send button. Arduino reads data and process it. To read data, we need to use the following Arduino code: ‘¢- Set baud rate and begin Serial port [BB sass in tnt oOo ‘@— Check whether data is available or not is tseriat.svatianieg) a i 17-3000 i ‘@-Read data from Serial port using one of the following functions: Serialreaci(), Serial readBytes(), SeriolreadBytesuntil(), Seriatreadstring(), Serial readStringUnti(). For example: Example Use In this example, we will send the commands from Serial Monitor to Arduino to turn on/off a built-in LED. The commands include: @= “ON turn on LED @— “OFF*Stum off LED How Arduino can receive a complete command? For example, when we send “OFF” command, how Arduino can know the command is “0”, “OF” or OFF"? = When sending a command, we will append a newline character ('|) by selecting “newline” option on Serial Monitor. Arduino will read data until itmeets the newline character. 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