Arduino Serial Communication

The Arduino IDE can do so many things hardware-wise, but it really is not meant to manipulate or display data once that data is collection. One way to take our DAQ systems to the next level is by sending the data taken from the board to a data visualizer program written in MATLAB, Python, or Processing. In this section, I have a write-up explaining why one should/could use Arduino (including a few preliminary sketches to test reads in MATLAB). I also have made this 2 Thermistor DAQ built 3 ways:

• A circuit build video shows how to construct our system from scratch
• Three programming videos walk through each line of code in MATLAB, Arduino, and Arduino + MATLAB
• PDF guide that emphasizes the most import commands in each program walkthrough

It's a fairly thorough explanation of how to build this circuit, and I have included links in the videos' descriptions to sites with more detail of what is happening.