What pins are serial?

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Software Interfacing
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Hey guys, 1st time blogger. time for a stupid question...

Im looking to do a project requiring several serial interfaces and wanting to know what pins are capable.

Im looking at the Duemilanove, pins 0 & 1 ( tx & rx) serial.

my question is: are the other digital pins capable of serial? and if so how to do this?

cheers

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Have a look for SoftwareSerial or NewSoftwareSerial libraries.

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pins 0 and 1 are basically echoing the USB serial stream, so anything sent or read by Serial.read() and Serial.write() will also work with these pins.

I used them yesterday to connect a BlueSMiRF module to my Duemilanove... these modules are made to connect to the 6 pin headers on the Pros and Lillypads, but the Duemilanoves have USB jacks instead of headers, so I used the 0 and 1 pins to connect the module through an overly complicated protoboard kludge, which looks horrible and beautiful at the same time ;D

Cheers