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This is an OLD question https://processing.org/discourse/beta/num_1257690723.html
The solution is very simple but I could not see it in there. Just use char( ) to get the unsigned value of a byte.
byte b = 141; float f = b ; // f is -115 f = char( b ); // f is 141