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The serial supports serial communication between the BBC micro:bit and another computer. Basically, this allows you to send data from the micro:bit to your own computer. This is very useful for debugging purposes: you can add write line
statements in your code and see them display on your computer as the program executes.

- Nov 25, 2019 Do a serial number search to look up a product you own by the serial number on it to see if it's eligible for warranty repair or other services. Contact the manufacturer or check receipts and repair records if you have trouble finding the serial number on the product or digitally.
- Do a serial number search to look up a product you own by the serial number on it to see if it's eligible for warranty repair or other services. Contact the manufacturer or check receipts and repair records if you have trouble finding the serial number on the product or digitally.
Club Car has employed a fairly standard serial number location and format since around 1981. Prior to that, they used a different numbering system. From 1975-80, Club Car always had three separate foot pedals, one for acceleration, one for braking, and on for a parking brake. If you see a Club Car with three pedals, it is certainly within this.
The code below shows a simple script that sends a line when the BBC micro:bit starts and another line each time the button A
is pressed.
Data is also automatically streamed to serial by the bar graph blockand picked up by the editor. This data can be streamed to the cloud as well.
How to read the micro:bit’s serial output from your computer
Unfortunately, using the serial library requires quite a bit of a setup.
Windows earlier than 10
If you are running a Windows version earlier than 10, you must install a device driver (for the computer to recognize the serial interface of the micro:bit).

Also, if you don’t see the serial port as one of your computer’s devices, you might need to update the firmware on the micro:bit. Find the device name for the attached serial port in the following instructions for your operating system.
Windows > Tera Term

- Install the terminal emulator Tera Term. At the time of this writing, the latest version is 4.88 and can be downloaded from here. Follow the instructions from the installer.
Once both the driver and the terminal emulator are installed, plug in the micro:bit and wait until the device is fully setup. Then, open TeraTerm.
- Hit
File
>New Connection
- Check “Serial”; in the dropdown menu, pick the COM port that says “mbed Serial Port”. Hit
Ok
. - In the menus, hit
Setup
>Serial Port
and set the baud rate to115200
.
You should be good. Feel free to hit Setup
> Save Setup
in the menus to erase the default configuration file with a new one so that you don’t have to type in the settings again.
Please note that Windows will assign you a different COM port if you plug in another micro:bit. If you’re juggling between micro:bits, you’ll have to change the COM port every time.
Windows > Putty
If you prefer another terminal emulator (such as PuTTY), here are some instructions.
- Open Windows’s Device Manager; expand the section called “Ports (COM & LPT)”; write down the com number for “mbed Serial Port” (e.g. COM14)
- Open PuTTY; on the main screen, use the following settings: Serial / COM14 / 115200. Replace COM14 with the COM port number you wrote down previously. Feel free to type in a name and hit “Save” to remember this configuration.
- (optional): in the “Terminal” section, check “implicit cr in every lf”
Linux
- Install the program
screen
if it is not already installed. - Plug in the micro:bit.
- Open a terminal.
- Find which device node the micro:bit was assigned to with the command
ls /dev/ttyACM*
. - If it was
/dev/ttyACM0
, type the commandscreen /dev/ttyACM0 115200
. If it was some other device node,use that one in the command instead. Note: You may need root access to runscreen
successfully. You can probably use the commandsudo
like this:sudo screen /dev/ttyACM0 115200
. - To exit
screen
, typeCtrl-A
Ctrl-D
.
Alternative programs include minicom
and so on.
Serial Number See Electrical Panel
Mac OS
Serial Number See Electrical Switch
- Plug in the micro:bit
- Open a terminal
ls /dev/cu.*
will return to you a list of serial devices; one of them will look like/dev/cu.usbmodem1422
(the exact number depends on your computer)screen /dev/cu.usbmodem1422 115200
will open up the micro:bit’s serial output. To exit, hitCtrl-A
Ctrl-D
.
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Serial Number See Electrical Codes

Manufacturer | Brand | Serial # Ex. | Key |
American (Prior to 2001, American was owned by GSW Corporation and manufactured water heaters for nearly 50 different brands. American was acquired by A.O. Smith in 2001 and currently only manufactures American, American-Pro-line, Premium Plus, U.S. Craftmaster and Whirlpool brand water heaters.) | American | 9746****** (46th week of 1997) | American uses a 2-digit year followed by a 2-digit week |
Craftmaster | |||
Mor-Flo/American | |||
SABH (U.S.) | |||
U.S. Craftmaster | |||
Ace | |||
American Hardware | |||
Best | |||
Best Deluxe | |||
Apex | |||
Aqua Temp | |||
Agua Therm | |||
Aquamatic | |||
Champion | |||
De-Limier | |||
Deluxe | |||
Eagle | |||
Earl’s Energy Saver | |||
Environtemp | |||
Four Most | |||
Hotmaster | |||
Hotstream | |||
King-Cleen | |||
King-line | |||
Master Plumber | |||
Nationaline | |||
Neptune | |||
Penquin | |||
Premier | |||
Prestige | |||
Proline | |||
Proline-Plus | |||
Quaker | |||
Quick-Flo | |||
Raywall | |||
Revere | |||
Riveria | |||
Sands | |||
Sentinel | |||
Service-Star | |||
Shamrock | |||
Special Deluxe | |||
Standard | |||
Super Eagle | |||
Sure-Fire | |||
Thoro-clean | |||
Tru-Test | |||
Tru Value | |||
U.S. Supply | |||
Whirlpool | |||
XCL-Energy Saver | |||
Manufacturer | Brand | Serial # Ex. | Key |
A.O. Smith | A.O. Smith | Old is *H06****** (August 2006). Since about 2008 0805XXXXXXX | 2nd letter is the month followed by the 2-digit year. A thru N = Jan thru Dec (excludes I) Since 2008, see rules for State below |
Glascote | |||
PermaGlas | |||
Bradford-White | Bradford White | D*******F (June 1967) CJ******* (Sept 1986) | B-W uses a 20-year letter code cycle to designate the year. The first letter is the year and the second is the month. Letter A = 1964, 1984 and 2004 A thru N = Jan thru Dec (Excludes I, O, Q, R, U & V) |
Jetglas | |||
Lochinvar | Lochinvar | ||
Energy Saver | |||
Golden Knight | |||
Knight | |||
Rheem | Rheem | 0794****** (July 1994) or 0794F***** (July 1994) | Rheem uses a 2-digit month followed by a 2-digit year |
Ruud | |||
Rheem/Ruud | |||
Richmond | |||
Vista Therm | |||
Citation | |||
Aqua Therm | |||
Energy Master | |||
Vanguard | |||
Cimarrom | |||
Coast to Coast | |||
Lowe’s | |||
Servi-Star | |||
True Value | |||
ABS | |||
Intertherm & Miller | |||
Mainstream | |||
Montgomery Ward | |||
General Electric | |||
Professional | |||
State Industries (State industries was acquired by A.O. Smith in 2008. A.O. Smith now uses this code.) | State/Kenmore | 0904******* (April 2009) C05******* (March 2005) | Beginning 2008, state uses an 11-digit alpha-numeric serial number. The first two positions are the year followed by a two digit month. Position 5 is a letter followed by 6 numbers. Prior to 2008, state used a 1-letter month followed by a 2-digit year A thru N = Jan thru Dec (Excludes the letter I) |
Reliance | |||
Ace | |||
Ambassador | |||
Barnett | |||
Century | |||
Crosley | |||
Energy Stretcher | |||
Freedom | |||
Freedome/Nipsco | |||
Hardware House | |||
Master Plumber/True5 | |||
Mission | |||
Nationaline | |||
Patriot | |||
Penfield | |||
President | |||
Regency | |||
Century | |||
The Plumbery | |||
Thermo-King | |||
TopLine |