Microcontroller applications with the Basic Stamp, PIC, 8051 and vaothers can often be enhanced with the use of the PC serial port, andsoftware interface. Designing your own custom interface software foyour next microcontroller application isn't as hard as you may think.Using the PC serial port to interface to the outside world, and your nmicrocontroller application, can provide you with some extremely powerful software/hardware solutions.This series of articles by Jared Hoylman will walk you through a few the basic concepts, and then move on to the more advanced areas ocommunicating with your hardware, and having your hardware communicate back to the PC.Introduction: Option ExplicitDataTypesParsing StringsAdvanced ParsingSending Data From The PC to a MicrocontrollerReceiving Data From The MicrocontrollerUnderstanding and Using Visual Basic Part 1By: Jared Hoylman - Being a VB programmer there are many things that I have picked up over the past few years that greatly improved my pr...