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.

You can read the state of a button using Arduino and a few lines of code. The actual state is shown in the Serial Monitor window as 0 or 1, 0 meaning the ...

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 ...

This simple WiFi serial port monitor would have saved us a lot of trouble. We can’t count how many times where being hooked into an Arduino with USB just to get the serial out has nearly been ...

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 ...

For more information on how to monitor crops for pests using the Arduino Pro platform and hardware jump over to the official Arduino blog by following the link below.