Hi guys

I am teaching myself MCU, and I am experiencing some ADC reading and UART output, just wondering if any ready to use software graph the data on a PC?

like this clip on youtube at 3:14

I am using Win7, AVR studio 5.1, STK500, AVR chip

 

When I was looking to do datalogging on PC in the past, I found that many are using Daqfactory software. It can be used for 30 days (full version) and. It was the only thing I could find with an acceptable stripchart/oscilloscope type logging display. This is actually really hard to find (for free).

 

The UART serial data should be easy enough to save on the PC as a text file.

Then import into any spreadsheet program like Excel, which not only lets you graph the data but can also perform other tasks like math functions, data conversion etc.

 

I came across a couple ideas here:

Back in the 70s I'd print horizontal graphs on the teletype a row at a time using ===== chars. Later, in the 80s, when the teltypes ran out of yellow paper, they had capital letters only crts that worked like teletypes, but the horizontal graph trick still works. I use it all the time with avrs and teraterm.

For Atmel's Xplained and sensor boards:
Sensor Xplained Demonstration Projects, Atmel Data Visualizer.