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UART pins on Arduino used for other component and need to re

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Hi,

I am using an Arduino MKR1500 with a fingerprint sensor and a VESC. Since both these devices need TX and RX pin, I wanted to know can I make changes in the fingerprint sensor to talk to a different IO pin on the arduino (which will act like TX, RX)? Also what changes do i need to do in the library to make sure that both these devices are able to communicate with the arduino without any issues?

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Re: UART pins on Arduino used for other component and need t

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For ATSAMD21 processors like the one in the MKR1500, you can create additional serial ports via SERCOM.

https://learn.adafruit.com/using-atsamd ... s/overview

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Re: UART pins on Arduino used for other component and need t

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Thanks a lot Bill! I will give that a try

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