How to print byte as two hex digits in Arduino

In embedded programming, you often want to print the hex value of a byte, consisting of two hex digits. For example, if you have uint8_t val = 14;, you intend to print 0x0E.

In Arduino you can do that using Serial.printf() with %02x as format specifier:

Serial.printf("val = %02x\r\n", val);

When using printf, %x means to format the value as hex. 02 means to pad the value with 0s up to a length of 2 digits. If you would format 14 using just %x, it would print E instead of 0E. This is why you need to use %02x.