The visualizer is going to leverage existing libraries in order to minimize the effort that is required to receive and plot data. There are two libraries that are particularly interesting for this project: pySerial and Matplotlib.
pySerial is a Python module that encapsulates all the features and functions that are needed to interact with a serial port. pySerial can run on multiple operating systems, such as Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, to name a few. It includes a module called serial that provides useful features for interacting with the serial port, such as the following:
- Open
- Close
- Send
- Receive
Matplotlib is a Python library that provides the functionality for 2D data plotting, which can be used interactively or can be used for publication-quality figures. The number and types of charts that can be created are quite extensive. For our purposes...