Recording The Serial Monitor Using Processing IDE

Andy Kong
5 min readMay 20, 2023

Hello dear reader!

Recently I found myself sending sensor data from a microcontroller to my computer via the serial port, and ran into trouble recording the data with Processing. At high data rates, new data arrives before I can finish processing the old data!

In my endeavor to fix this, I found a way to control serial communications logging from inside Processing which also works from any other programming language. I also wrote a nifty Serial logging Java class which you may find useful in your logging adventures to…

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