Thanks zoomkat! Thats just about exactly what I was lookin for. Ive been playing around with the sketch to make different phrases and such.
So I see in this example that anything i type in will be repeated back at me with ", Doug" on it. Now that I understand what that looks like Ill bee looking in to how to make responses that are unique to what I type in.
For example if i type in "hello"
the computer responds "hello,Doug"
but...
If I type in "how are you?"
the computer responds "just fine thank you"
Im not asking you guys to do all the work for me, just maybe an example or two of how serial.read can be used to create individual responses