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  Session: Educational Applications of Arduino Microcontrollers
  Paper Type: Contributed
  Title: Arduino-based Digital/Optical Communication System
  Meeting: 2016 Winter Meeting: New Orleans, Louisiana
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 4:40PM
  Author: Neal C. Gallagher. III*, Socrates Preparatory School
970-481-5935, nealcg@gmail.com
  Co-Author(s): Joshua C. and Nicholas M. Fair, Brandon W Mayle, Jason Cannon-Silber, Maura F Gallagher
  Abstract: Using a clear flexible PVC tube filled with mineral oil as an optical fiber, a laser diode is submerged in one tube side with a photo-resistor in the other side. A transmitter and a receiver Arduino are connected to the laser and resistor respectively. A message typed into a laptop is passed to the transmitter Arduino that converts a text message into binary ASCII, one character at a time. It transmits each character as a packet with a leading sync pulse to align timing for the transmitter and the receiver. Each received packet is converted back to a character by the receiver Arduino and then displayed on a connected laptop.
  Footnotes: *Sponsor: Neal C. Gallagher, Ph.D.
  Presentation: Arduino Digital Optica Communication.pptx.pdf

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