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

2. 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

3. 1. Labview (Cont.)
Source :

4. 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 :

5. 2. Processing (Cont.)
Video 1:
Video 2:

6. 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

7. 3. CoolTerm(Cont.) + Matlab

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

9. Any Questions?