From the course: Raspberry Pi: GPIO
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Enable the serial connection
- [Instructor] With UART hardware connected, we're ready to set up serial software. In this project, we'll need to set up software on both the Raspberry Pi and the laptop. Let's start with the Raspberry Pi. Go to the Raspberry Pi menu, Preferences, Raspberry Pi Configuration, then go to the Interfaces tab. And Enable Serial Port and Serial Console. You'll need to hit OK and then reboot. Now to establish a connection from a laptop to the Raspberry Pi. Depending on your laptop, Windows, Macintosh, or Linux, this process will differ. In my case, the device that I'm using, the USB connection, is manufactured with a Silicon Labs chip set, so I go to silabs.com to the Download page, and I can find all of the drivers that I need. In my case, I'm looking for the Macintosh version. And I download the drivers that I need to talk to the USB device that I'm talking to. With the drivers installed and the USB device plugged…
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