Visualizing Data from Arduino University of Wisconsin – Madison Keum San Chun & Samuel Jensen 09.18.2014

1. LabView Overview: Advantage: Disadvantage: Not the same LabView as the conventional LabView Specific interface developed just for Arduino Advantage: Allows controlling Arduino in terms of GUI (as opposed to coding) Minimize the time for programming the Arduino Input/output can be displayed on the front panel Disadvantage: Program written in Labview cannot be download to the Arduino board for connection-free operation

1. Labview (Cont.) Source : http://richfatcat.hubpages.com/hub/Labview-and-Arduino#slide6858617

2. Processing Overview: Advantage: Separate programming IDE from Arduino IDE Free, open source program Supports GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Advantage: Real-time visualization of signal from the Arduino on PC Similar interface as Arduino IDE Can be programmed to save the data from the Arduino Nice Tutorial : http://processing.org/examples/

2. Processing (Cont.) Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrgMkaPy5bU Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH1bPQOCAH4

3. CoolTerm + Matlab Overview: Advantage: Disadvantage: CoolTerm is a serial port terminal application Free program Supports GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Advantage: Data collection is possible When used with matlab or any other programs that allows the plotting of the data, graphical information can be reconstructed Disadvantage: Doesn’t support the real-time visualization of the signal i.e. data visualization is possible only after data collection is complete

3. CoolTerm(Cont.) + Matlab

3. CoolTerm + Matlab(Cont.) Data can be loaded in Matlab and plotted

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