Clearing the Serial Buffer?

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You could do this:

while (Serial.available ())
  Serial.read ();

But as PaulS says, maybe just keep reading until you get the start of the next packet. For example, the datasheet says:

When communication is performed over the UART, data transmitted and received by the UM6 is formatted into packets containing:

  1. The three character start sequence 's', 'n', 'p' to indicate the start of a new packet (ie. start new packet)

So just keep reading until you get 's', 'n', 'p' in sequence. You should probably do that anyway.