Can anyone recommend an open-source project focused on data acquisition, display, and control? The commercial standard is LabWindows from National Instruments. There is something called "Liberlab" http://sites.google.com/site/liberlabsite/ written in Python back in 2006, and adapted for Arduino in 2008
https://web.archive.org/web/20210213213548/http://www.uchobby.com/index.php/2008/01/19/arduino-liberlab-liberino/
but it does not appear to be an active project now. Is there anything else?
What I really want is just an easy way to do various real-time plots and status indicators on my Windows PC screen to show data coming in on the serial port, and some control buttons to send commands back on the serial port. "Processing" is nice and user-friendly, but doesn't seem to be really designed for this. It's based on Java, so I looked at just using the Java Swing GUI setup. But from a quick look, that's not easy to jump into with no experience in that area.