Communication from Arduino to Roborio

[mkmeral]

Originally Posted by Thad House

One option for connection is to directly hook up the arduino over usb to the roborio. This provides power, and you can use a serial connection to communicate between the roborio and the arduino. I've done this most often in the past because it's a single wire and fairly easy to program.

How do you do it? By using RXTX? What are names of the ports of Roborio (for example "COM1" etc for windows). When i tried it, it broke the roborio's comm.