Summary
In this chapter we had a good look at a few different forms of serial communications, from the hardware serial port on the Arduino microcontroller; to the software emulation of serial on any of the general purpose I/O pins; and I2C, a serial communication protocol for talking to various sensors, displays, and other devices. This was only the tip of the iceberg because there are even more communication protocols, like Serial Peripheral Interface, or SPI, and OneWire among others. Hopefully, though, this chapter has shown some of the similarities and a few of the differences between these few protocols to make learning new ones easier than before.
Speaking of learning new things, in the next chapter we are going to continue on with a loose ...
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