Connect the Arduino to your computer using the USB cable. Open the Serial Monitor in your IDE to see the values from the sensor – this will also help you to calibrate your plant monitor.

It can also examine and set global variables that you preconfigure and set watches on variables. It is also possible to call functions from the serial monitor.

Being able to communicate with your embedded project to understand what is happening is a necessary aspect of debugging. TK takes us through a review of Eltima's Virtual Serial Port Driver software ...

As a preview of his latest book, Arduino Project Handbook: 25 Practical Projects to Get You Started, Mark Geddes takes us through the project to create a simple Arduino plant monitor. In this project ...

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