title: Converting String to List of Bytes
body: <p>This has to be incredibly simple, but I must not be looking in the right place.</p>
  
  <p>I'm receiving this string via a FTDI usb connection:</p>
  
  <pre><code>'UUU'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to receive this as a byte array of</p>
  
  <pre><code>[85,85,85]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In Python, this I would convert a string to a byte array like this:
      [ord(c) for c in 'UUU']</p>
  
  <p>I've looked around, but haven't figured this out. How do I do this in Visual Basic?</p>