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Hello all,
I have a CMUCAM 2 camera. I communicate with this camera through the serial port. The camera sends the data in non visible ascii format... My question what type of format should i use in scanf command. or is there any other way to read such format?
Thank you

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Then it's just a stream of bytes (eg. unsigned chars).

So you read it using whatever OS/Compiler specific functions you have for reading the serial port, and store those bytes in some kind of array (or some C++ equivalent if that's where you're going).

After that, you pretty much have to examine each byte in turn to figure out what it means, and what to do next.
Eg.

if ( buff[0] == 0x01 ) {
  // start of a frame, the next two bytes are the length of the image data 
  // which follows.
}
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