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The Arduino IDE Serial Plotter is a tool that allows you to display data sent by an Arduino as a real-time graph. The Serial Plotter itself feels like a hidden feature (I didn't know about it at first ...

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Learning electronics? Then, chances are you already know what an Arduino is, or at the very least, you've heard of it. After all, it's among the most popular electronics platforms available in the ...

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If one process has a serial port open, another can not access it. Arduino IDE is designed to automatically manage access to ports by the various operations and components that use them: Uploading ...

One of the strong points of Arduino is its easy-to-use serial port which makes it simple to export data, to send commands to it, or to help with debugging. A Serial Monitor and a Serial Plotter are ...

The Arduino Serial Data Exporter library was created in order to streamline data exported via USB serial. Manually printing via Serial.print() and Serial.println() can quickly bloat code, particularly ...