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[ROJO]

So, I've got a SerAccel v4 and am getting good data out of it in Hyperterminal. However, I would like to log this data so I could import it into a program such as MATLAB (even Excel would work) so I can plot the data I'm getting. However, using the Text Capture function in hyperterminal, I just get a *.txt file with all the data strung together with no columns or anything that helps divide it up and make it importable. Does anyone have a good way to get the data logged in a cleaner fashion that is importable to another program? Thanks

[Kuroi Kenjin]

I kind of hate to say this, but have you ever written a program for a computer? I find the best way to do this is just write your own interface program. Now that Microsoft actual has something new for free Visual C# 2005 with .net 2.0, it's not that bad. The new .net 2.0 framework now has a serial port class in it which seems to be very easy to use. If you program in C, then C# is pretty simple to learrn (more so if you know C++). This way you can just read from the serial port and write it to a file in a format you want and even display it on a window form.

[ROJO]

Not since high school java class.....all my programming since then has been in either PLC ladder logic or assembly code for microcontrollers. I'm not afraid to program in C (I have in the past) I was just hoping to avoid it.

[Kuroi Kenjin]

What format do you need it in? I'm very gonzo with programming, and I may be able to help.

[ROJO]

I actually got it sorted out. I ended up doing a .csv import with custom fixed width columns into excel. Took some fooling around with various delimiters and the like, but this got it worked out, and tada! a crappy matlab graph!:

http://thrice.made2own.com/~ilovesc/score.jpg

thanks for your help anyways!

[Kuroi Kenjin]

Nice. Much better looking than the ones simple ones I had to do for various classes.