I am working on a small project where I want to use my keyboard or a game pad to control certain things. The very first thing I am trying to do is get continuous serial communication working but I have a massive problem find out how to do it. Basically like the serial monitor inside arduino 1.0 environment but so it continuously listens for characters pressed on the keyboard and sends them to the arduino mega ADK every half a second or so, kinda like having a loop inside the serial monitor that listens for keys pressed .
Does anyone have any idea how to do it?
I originally looked at using my game pad to control the arduino but I understand it's a bit of a hassle to modify the object orientated input system to work with my gampad, so for now I just want to use my keyboard to control the arduino.
Yes, I thought it might the case.
I have been looking at how to just simply send serial data to the arduino using C and just putting a loop around it but I'm having no luck in finding it.
Do you know where I could find such info?