Hello Arduino Comunity and thank you for being there...
This is my first time posting to the community.
I am incorporating ARDUINO into the courses that I teach. We will be making dispensers controlled by ARDUNIO and STEPPER MOTORS.
In all of the code examples and tutorials that I find, they seem to all use the SERIAL MONITOR to send instructions to tell the motor how much to turn.
Is it possible to write code that can be downloaded to the ARDUINO that doesn't use the SERIAL MONITOR?
The design intent is: create the program and download to the ARDUINO. Then, press the push button to get the motor turnng (in the amont specified in the program). It would be powered by a battery or power adapter (the dispenser would be sitting sitting on a desk and not have a laptop hooked up to it during regular operation).
I am tinkering with bits of code and understand (somewhat) what is happening in each line of code. I just can't seem to find code that doesn't use the Serial Monitor.
Is the serial monitor necessary?????
Any help/direction would be appreciated.
Thank you. Vince