Serial-Oscilloscope
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Serial Oscilloscope is a Windows application that plots comma-separated variables within any incoming serial steam as channels on a real-time oscilloscope. The application also functions as a basic serial terminal, received bytes are printed to the terminal and typed characters are transmitted. The project uses Michael Bernstein's [oscilloscope library](http://www.oscilloscope-lib.com/) to plot up to 9 channels on 3 different oscilloscope with view and trigger menus.
Serial Oscilloscope is compatible with any serial stream containing comma-separated values terminated by a new-line character ("\r"). For example, "11,22,33\r" will be interpreted as values 11, 22 and 33 for channels 1, 2 and 3 respectively. The serial stream can also include non numerical characters which will be ignored. For example, "a=0.5,blue,x=3.14,t1t2t3,8\r\n" will be interpreted as values 0.5, 3.14, 123 and 8 for channels 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively.
The source files also include an Arduino sketch to send analogue input values over serial. Up to 6 ADC channels can be enabled by sending the characters "1" to "6" to the Arduino. Enabling more channels will reduce the sample rate.
In the [YouTube video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgMG0UQ2_pc) I show the Arduino and Serial Oscilloscope being used to plot data from an [IR distance sensor]( https://www.sparkfun.com/products/242), a [triple-axis accelerometer]( https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9269) and a [microphone]( https://www.sparkfun.com/products/9964).
Precompiled binary files can be [download](http://www.x-io.co.uk/serial-oscilloscope/) from the x-io website.
Version history
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* **v1.0** Initial release
* **v1.1** Supports non-standard baud rates. Disable terminal feature added.
* **v1.2** Fixed memory leak and bug that prevent plotting of negative numbers.
* **v1.3** No longer ignores "." for plotting decimal values.
* **v1.4** Clear terminal menu item added
* **v1.5** Log to file tool. Remove non-numerical characters from port names.