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!

For this you will need: -Windows (tested on xp) -Arduino IDE -Microsoft office (tested on 2010) -PLX-DAQ (expansion for excel) -Arduino (tested on UNO, but any board should work) I am assuming that you’ve already got an Arduino, Windows, Arduino IDE and Excel. Here’s the link to download PLX-DAQ: You only need to download and install it, it should work fine. After installation, it will automatically create a folder named PLX-DAQ on your Desktop in which you will find a shortcut named PLX-DAQ Spreadsheet. Corel videostudio x10 keygen. When you want to use your Arduino to send data to excel, just open up the shortcut. Of course PLX-DAQ has more functions, which you can explore on your own by reading the instructions in the rar folder that you downloaded.

Live Data to Excel From an Arduino Light Sensor. By HUKBMBEAR in Technology Science. Hi I believe yes - I have been playing with a few add-on's that claim to allow serial communication but as yet have not been able to get them to work once I doe I will post an ible. 4 years ago on Introduction. Controle de portas digitais do Arduino Uno com planilha Excel Tutorial completo em: www.mecatronizando.com.br FanPage: https://www.facebook.com/mecatronizand.