Arduino + Visual Basic – Martyn Currey

Simple Serial Monitor

September 3, 2024August 30, 2024 by Martyn

Simple Serial Monitor is yet another stand alone replacement for the Arduino serial monitor. It is text only and is far from being a fully fledged terminal app. It does have a couple of features that make it a little better than the regular Arduino serial monitor, especially when used with UART modules like the … Read more

Arduino and Visual Basic Part 3: Send And Receive Serial Data Between An Arduino And Visual Basic

September 3, 2024August 23, 2024 by Martyn

Although Part 2 was more advanced than part 1, part 2 still only sent data one-way, from the Arduino to the Visual Basic app, and the data was very basic. It’s time to spice things up with more complex commands and 2-way communication. Although I used the sketch and Visual Basic app from the previous … Read more

Arduino and Visual Basic Part 2: Receiving Data From the Arduino

August 23, 2024August 22, 2024 by Martyn

This post continues from Arduino and Visual Basic Part 1: Receiving Data From the Arduino In part 1 data was sent from an Arduino to a Visual Basic app and the data was displayed in a text box. This was all well and good but the app had no idea what the data was, it … Read more

Arduino and Visual Basic Part 1: Receiving Data From the Arduino

August 23, 2024August 22, 2024 by Martyn

This is the first part of a guide about using a serial port to connect an Arduino to a Visual Basic app running on a PC. Communication is via the regular USB serial UART channel. The first example is fairly simple, data is sent from the Arduino and displayed in a Visual Basic app. This … Read more

Arduino and Visual Basic Part 3: Controlling an Arduino

April 27, 2018June 19, 2015 by Martyn

I am still very new to Visual Basic and I have been surprised at how quickly you can develop working apps. My first attempt resulted in a very basic app to receive data from the Arduino which taught me the basics of serial communication in VB. The next step is two way communication and controlling the Arduino from the VB program. I already have a similar project arduinoBTcontrol, where the Arduino is controlled from an Android app over Bluetooth. So all I need do is tweek the Arduino sketch and recreate the Android app in VB.