SerialChart

SerialChart is a tool that lets you visualize real-time data from hardware devices on your computer screen. If you're working with microcontrollers, sensors, or any device that sends data over a serial connection (like an Arduino or Raspberry Pi), this app displays that incoming data as live, moving graphs—like an oscilloscope you'd find in an electronics lab, but for your serial data stream.

The software is built using Qt, a framework for creating desktop applications that work smoothly across Windows, Mac, and Linux. You don't need to compile anything yourself—there are ready-to-use versions in the project's Release folder that you can download and run immediately. The project also includes a PDF guide explaining how to configure the tool to work with your specific setup.

This would be useful for anyone debugging hardware or experimenting with embedded systems. For example, if you're building a sensor that reads temperature and humidity, you could pipe that data to SerialChart and watch the temperature graph spike up and down in real time as you move the sensor around. Or if you're tuning a robot's motor control, you could plot the actual motor speed against the target speed to see how well your code is working. It's the kind of tool that saves hours of frustration by letting you see what your device is actually doing, rather than just guessing based on raw numbers printed to a console.

The readme mentions this is a port of an earlier open-source project, built on top of existing work to make a more polished version. It's straightforward to get started—extract the downloaded file and run it.