Beginner's Robotic Arm

AWOL:
I have no idea why you are receiving that, but it looks like either a speed mismatch, or a line inversion.
You could write a simple sketch to find out what the idle state of the line is.
Or look at it with an oscilloscope.

what kind of sketch would be that??? i tried using just a simple Serial.read(); Serial.println(); sketch, but the same happend...