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Interfacing the Arduino Control Box
The newer Arduino-based controller board for the manipulators uses a USB connector instead of the RS-232 serial connector of the Lynxmotion SSC-32 controller board. It also has a nice little box made for it, hence the name Control Box.
Serial Port. Usually the serial port is given a consistent name across the operating systems, so that one need only program the serial port once and it works from there. When using a USB cable, the interface appears as a new serial port once the drivers are loaded. The problem is that the serial port label is not necessarily consistent from machine to machine. That means it is necessary to confirm what COM port gets defined for the computer that you connect it to. You might be able to expect that this name will be consistent from day to day, as you plug and unplug over time, given that the computer and the control box used stay the same.