pyserial is a python module that allows one to access serial port. It’s easy to use and one can start test serial port communication in minutes.

1. Install pyserial

If your machine doesn’t have pyserial module installed, you can install the module using easy_install.

sudo easy_install pyserial

In case you don’t have easy_install [...]

udev is the device manager for the Linux kernel. It consists of 3 parts, libudev, the library that provides access to device information; the daemon udevd, manages the virtual file system normally mounted at /dev, running in user space; and udevadm, an utility tool for diagnostics.

This entry covers how to access the device [...]

Pipe is a simple FIFO communication channel used for one-way Inter-Process Communication (IPC). Typically a starting process creates a pipe, and one or more processes are spawned to receive messages and form a pipeline. As Pipe is a one-way IPC, it normally requires two pipes for two-way communication.

In Linux, pipes are often created [...]