Yes, you are absolutely right, using a board with several real hardware serial ports is the obvious solution. That obvious solution is named “Arduino Mega” and generally is priced at $60.

The module can be used as a standalone module with attached battery, speaker and push buttons or used in combination with an Arduino or any other microcontroller with serial communication (UART) ...

UART is commonly found in microcontrollers, computers, and peripheral devices. MAX14830ETM+ is a UART interface IC that was designed for bridging microprocessors with SPI/MICROWIRE or I2C ...

If you use the Arduino IDE to program the ESP32, you might be interested in [Andreas Spiess’] latest video (see below). In it, he shows an example of using all three ESP32 UARTs from an Ardui… ...

A new fully featured Arduino development board has been created called the Prestissimo Uno+ which is now available to back via Kickstarter with earlybird pledges available from just $20, AUS$28 or ...

On-board jumpers allow the transmitter and receiver to be connected to a choice of Arduino I/O pins – default is Tx is connected to UART Serial pin 1 and Rx to UART Serial pin 0. The associated ...

Simple and standardized protocol: UART uses a simple and standardized protocol for serial communication, making it easy to implement in a wide range of devices. 3.