Dear all:
I am beginner with Arduino, and I need to send data to my PC (java, excel, or similar...) from different sensors through the serial port, is it that posible? I mean 3 different sensor like Temperature, Current, CO2, etc at the same ending the data acquired to an excel table via serial port....can some one tell if it is posible, and some hints?
thanks in advance
MGV
is it that posible?
Of course it is. You can send multiple values to the Serial Monitor application can't you?
Sending the data to Excel requires that you have an application that can read the data from the serial port, and send it to Excel. Do you have such an application? PLX-DAQ is one possibility.
I wrote a demo in Python here to illustrate communication with an Arduino. It may give you some ideas.
...R
What you describe is one of the best and most common uses for Arduino. I assume you haven't actually tried it yet, but it's just a matter of reading the various sensors in turn, printing the result, and the going round again. I'm an Excel fan. Below is a link to using PLX-DAQ. It is a freebie macro for Excel that makes it a terminal. Most of the work for this is in Excel, the Arduino bit is easy .
The following software can be useful too. I've copied the link to the tutorial, where data from 2 ports are aggregated.
I would recommend to use Access as a database and analyze the data from Excel using Access as a data source.