And if you change the binary then it's not the binary but you'll be able to read it without a hex editor.
Learning to capture binary on the PC is a useful personal skill/tool and hex editors do write as well as read.
Compare changing your code to produce debug text to capturing what you have and viewing with a hex editor?
Which is easier, not forgetting to make it able to output binary values?
What are you doing with the data and how fast is the data flow?
Do you have SD support? You could write the data to the SD card and read that card on your PC.