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Jul 19, 2012  Microcontroller Programming » Reading from serial and sending info to a text file using python? These are a little easier to use than NI's MultiSim. I also use NI SignalExpress for DAQ and analysis. With Excel, have you tried an xls.VBA interface with uart? I know NK Forum doesn't like VB. You're right. However, Arduino Forum may also. Jul 11, 2015 - My deepest thanks to them. Excel 2007, Windows 8.1 (64 bit), Arduino Uno R3, Arduino IDE 1.6.5, USB port (acting as serial.

When you think about serial communications, Microsoft Excel isn’t typically the first program that springs to mind. But this spreadsheet has a rather powerful scripting language hidden away inside it, which can, with a little coding, be used to. The scripting language is called, and it has been a part of Microsoft’s Office suite since 1993. Since then, it has evolved into a powerful (if sometimes frustrating) language that offers a subset of the features from Visual Basic. It can be a useful tool. Imagine, for instance, that you are logging data from an instrument that has a serial port (or even an emulated one over USB). With a bit of VBA, you could create a spreadsheet that talks to the instrument directly, grabbing the data and processing it as required straight into the spreadsheet.

It’s a handy trick that I have used myself several times, and [Maurizio] does a nice job of explaining how the code works, and how to integrate this code into Excel. If you’re looking for other ways to leverage this Excel feature, consider or building inside of your sheets. • • • • Posted in Tagged, Post navigation. Thanks for the article, I think this is an great way to log the data coming from my Arduino.

I’ve seen some other tools that people have written to log and graph serial data, but it’s nice being able to do it with software that’s already installed on my computer and is familiar to me (as opposed to installing python and having to figure out which command prompt I’m supposed to use to write code and which one to use to run code. Don’t listen to the jerks out there, I think you guys at HaD do an awesome job!

Dear AVR Pros, i am looking for an easy and affordable way to interface an SPI Daisy chain consisting of 30 or more ATmega8 Slaves with a Windows 7 PC with Excel VBA. I was thinking about an Arduino or something like that to receive serial commands from Excel and translating them to be fed on the SPI bus. Is this actually possible or is there maybe an easier way, such as a USB to SPI adapter which can be talked to via a virtual com port? I guess the AVRISP mkII can't be used for this since i couldn't figure out how to generate custom bytes at its SPI output. I appreciate any kind of input, since i am quite a newbie in microcontrollers. Thank you very much in advance! Best regards.

Thank you guys! @ clawson: after further investigation, the Arduino sounds like a good solution to me. I hope i didn't overlook any disadvantages which could affect my project. I will only be using one SS-line and daisy chain the slaves together according to this connection scheme: So basically i will be pushing the data through all the slaves and they will filter out whats meant for them using unique addresses. @ awneil: can you tell me what is better about the expensive device, compared to an Arduino or the cheap USB devices you mentioned?

I really appreciate your help guys, thank you! I've seen this thread before, but can't see how it relates to the problem. Of course i will try to make the lines as short as possible, maybe even just stack the master and slave pcbs on top of each other. In post #3 of the mentioned thread there is an example calculation, mentioning a 28 feet distance at 8 mHz SPI clockrate. I don't even think that i will need 8 mHz since i only need to transmit 24 bit to each slave with an update rate of maybe 20 ms. Is there something i'm overlooking?

Thank you very much! Best regards. Prizefighter wrote: @ awneil: can you tell me what is better about the expensive device, compared to an Arduino or the cheap USB devices you mentioned? Well, what constitutes 'better' depends entirely on the particular requirements! You can see an overview of key features & performance here: Trying to think back (it was a couple of years ago), IIRC, the key requirement was for an SPI Slave; which is what ruled-out the FTDI devices - but doesn't matter for you.