I've found a few articles in how to gather information and write to excel format, seems simple enough.
I'd like to expand a little on this, basically I have a set of temperature sensors, the information from them I would like to export directly onto a USB stick, if plugged in otherwise no logging is done - I am looking to have the arduino unit running in my car standalone, with a usb female connector somewhere to plug a stick into.
Has anyone ever done anything like this and/or could point me in direction of some examples?
I aim to have several tmp36 sensors around the engine bay, the info from them will be shown on a OLED screen, which allows you to monitor whats goin on at that point - but what i'd like to do is log all this information, for future reference.
So if one day i decide i want to log data, i jump in car, insert usb stick or sd ram card into a slot and off i go, not only will it display the temps on the OLED screen but also to the data storage device which i can then later take out, plug into laptop and draw some pretty graphs with excel.
Well, then all you need is a "data logger". A very good one (and cheap as well) is this: http://wyolum.com/shop/20-i2gps.html
Don't forget to mention you heard about their store from me
That is an Arduino onto itself. It has an FTDI connector you can program it through.
It just has the (micro)SD card on board.
You should also appreciate the small form factor, a plus in your case, I think.