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 # BetterSerialMonitor
-The serial monitor included in Arduino is limited. This one is a little bit better.
+The serial monitor included in Arduino is limited, especially in the fact that you can really only send human-readable ASCII text. Sometimes you need to be able to easily test things, and sometimes those tests require sending bytes over the serial line that are not human-readable ASCII characters.
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+This one is a little bit better. It allows you to construct a message out of text or just raw bytes. 
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+When adding bytes to your message, you can choose to enter a decimal number or a hexidecimal number. Separate each byte by a space. Hexidecimal numbers should be prefixed by "0x".
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+Have fun!
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