Receiving/printing data from the Arduino while Serial port is being used

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Hello all,

I am currently doing a project where I interface a CMUCAM4 with the Arduino through the Serial 0 and 1 pins. Because of this, it's hard to use Serial.println() to get any data for my project, since the Serial terminal is full of fuzzy data from the camera. Is there another way of println-ing or getting data from the Arduino? I really just want to see some variables in the code changing.

Thank you.

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Is there another way of println-ing or getting data from the Arduino?

Lots of ways,including:

Attach an LCD and print to it.
Use an Arduino with more than one hardware serial port, and attach the camera to another serial port, so Serial is available.
Use SoftwareSerial to talk to the camera on other pins.
Toggle LEDs in Morse code fashion.