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[Filip]

Well,

I connected my robot (wich has MICROCONTROLLER onboard) and it recognized it.

[mandai]

A USB port does not provide the same access as a Serial port.

[Filip]

It's connected to USB

[mandai]

I imagine you would need a driver in order to simluate a serial port over a USB connection.

[Filip]

They were probably installed automaticlly

[mandai]

If you have a SDK for such a device, or if your device presents itself as a serial port over USB then that might be the case.

[mika]

Nice! lmao;

[GaiaonlineHD]

Hello,

This tutorial will show you how to connect to serial and write something in it.

Imports:

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Imporst System.IO.Ports

1. Listing all Serial(COM) ports to control (in code ComboBox)

This will get name of port

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Dim ports As String() = SerialPort.GetPortNames()

Code below will add ports to control (ComboBox)

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Dim port As String
        For Each port In ports
            ComboBox1.Items.Add(port)

        Next port

2. Connecting to port selected by user

Add this under Class

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Dim serialPort As New SerialPort

Code below will select serial port and open(connect) to it

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Try
                    serialPort.PortName = ComboBox1.SelectedItem
                    serialPort.Open()
Catch ex as exception 

End Try

Disconecting:

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serialPort.close()
serialPort.dispose()

3. Writing/reading to serial port
Writing:

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serialPort.Write("something")

Reading:

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Dim string As String = serialPort.ReadLine()

That's all

-visioncr0

Where do i put all of these codes its confusing :|

[Filip]

Hey,

Here's the source code:

Controlling Microcontroler.rar

Hope it helps

[benji_19994]

would this work for arduino ?