Wow. Thanks for the quick replies.
EHaskins - thank you for showing me that white paper. I thought I had done a thorough search on serial ports in the white papers section, but it never occurred to me to search for another dashboard viewer.
6600gt - thank you for the program. It seems like it would help me a lot. It would be great to see what was truly being sent. To elaborate on what I'm doing: our robot is going to be a heavyweight sumo robot - 150 lbs fully autonomous. We hope to take all our sensor readings - both digital and analog - and send them to a laptop through a wireless serial transmitter. The laptop should then read the information and perform heavy math to find where the robot and the opponent are on the field. The laptop will then send pwm outputs back to the robot (within one program loop - would that be possible?). Thanks for the suggestion - I'm going to try reading bytes whenever I get the chance to.
Once again, thanks - these tips are great
Dan - 808