Virtual Chart Recorder

This handy program turns your Windows PC into a 8 channel chart recorder.

Space separated data is ingested via a USB serial port.  In the set up screen, one assigns the data to the pen colour.  One can set the scale factor and the zero position on the chart.  It works like a slow motion CRO.  The result is a

We usually use it in conjunction with a microprocessor that monitors whatever we are interested in and outputs data via a serial port (RS232).  This is then fed into the PC via the USB-Serial port.

The result is a huge GIF file.  One can read this in to GIMP and chop out the relevant bit and put it into a report.  If it runs off the end of the maximum width then it just saves it and starts a new blank one.