“At the last hardware hack night, Jake and I got a web page to transmit uart serial data to an arduino at 9600 baud using the webaudio browser api. Sending serial data from an ordinary web page is interesting because it means you can communicate with hardware without installing any special software onto a device. This makes setting up a system faster and easier, which is really useful for annoying computers like phones where it is very difficult to install and run new software. Any device with a modern web browser will do: android, iOS, linux, windows, MacOSX, whatever!”
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