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+### USART 
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+The easiest way to look at the output of USART is to use a serial monitor. The Arduino IDE includes on and coolTerm is also freely available. The Arduino IDE automatically interprets the bytes sent as ASCII so you need to translate using an [ASCII table](http://www.asciitable.com/).
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