For a new way of controlling an Arduino board with a PC, this method described by Renaun Erickson from Adobe may be of interest. Renaun has demonstrated a serial API for Google Chrome that allows the Arduino to communicate with the browser via a Chrome extension. Then the rest of the controls can be implemented through a javadscript application. For a complete explanation Renaun takes us through the process in the following video:
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