I have a large quantity of gyro values and I read them through the Arduino serial monitor. I'd like to know how I can use these values in other programming languages (such as C/C++/Java) after the values are read. Are there particular libraries for the Arduino that could help me in this way?
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See arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/1850/…. Seems to be much that same issue.– Mikael PatelCommented Dec 3, 2015 at 21:09
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If your Arduino sketch is printing the data as ASCII numeric strings (human-readable), then any language with support for reading and writing to a serial device can interact with your Arduino on the port it is connected to, and collect the gyro data as it is being sent.
Yes, of course you can.
In C/C++ there are different libraries depending on your operating system - that is if you even really need a library to help you at all (in Linux you certainly don't - you just use standard system calls - open, read, etc).
In Java there are a few different ones. RXTX is a common (though not very good) one. Personally I ise JSSC(Java Simple Serial Connector) since it contains the JNI files for all the main platforms - you don't have to get the right separate library packages for your specific OS like you do with RXTX.
Then of course there's things like PySerial for Python, Device::SerialPort for Perl, and whatever nonsense Microsoft have created for C# and their .NET stuff.
So in general: pick a language you are comfortable with, then ask Google how to use the serial port in it.
