I am trying to send a number from the IDE serial monitor to the Arduino (ultimately to control the speed of a motor), and have figured out a bunch of things: typing in 255 (for example) actually sends 3 bytes of data (plus another if ther is a linefeed) everything sent is interpretted as an ASCII …

Serial communication with monitor

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