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