Controlling devices with the serial port and writing graphical interfaces

Pololu Serial 16-Servo Controller.

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1. Introduction
2. Materials
3. Installing Cygwin (Windows only)
4. Writing a program in C
5. Adding a GUI with Tcl/Tk
6. Compiling and running the program
7. Conclusion

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