start: 10:30

Communications Testing:

• The Arduino’s Serial.available() alone will only recieve 1 bit.  It needs to be set equal to some number to receive more.
• The Structure finally passed and casted correctly once I got the array to load properly
• The original test structure had chars as its data members.  This worked with no problem.
• The Arduino uses 16 bit integers while visual C++ defaults to 32 bit integers.  In order to pass structures with integer data members you have to make sure that you pass 16 bit ints.

#include <stdint.h>

int16_t var;

• PC now can send properly and the arduino can recieve properly
• Set up Arduino to PC communication.  Not working properly yet.

end: 6:30